Theorising the Greek and Roman Classics provides readers, ranging from undergraduates to experienced researchers, with original and authoritative treatments showing how Greek and Roman textual, epigraphical and archaeological evidence can be productively combined with current and substantive theoretical concerns. These include: approaches which use globalising and post-colonial lenses to contextualise and challenge narratives of Greek and Roman antiquity’s centrality; investigations of the impact and potential of posthumanism, ecocriticism, emotions theory, the ‘animal turn’, aesthetics, and more on understandings of the ancient world and its legacies; and critical explorations of classicisms across time and space. This is a highly innovative series, which:
- favours short book-length contributions (20,000-30,000 words) over longer monographic studies or edited volumes;
- involves academics who work in fields that expand the traditional precincts of classics and/or are based outside Anglo-European centres of learning (as both authors and reviewers);
- discusses works and materialities beyond the canonical geographical and temporal boundaries;
- focuses on the proliferation of sub-theories within a general theory and explains what individual contributions the study of ‘classics’ can bring to these theories.
As such, it aims to function as an authoritative platform for representing the dynamic potential of the theoretical turn in the study and explication of the Greek and Roman worlds, and to offer a scholarly paradigm for the use of transdisciplinary trajectories in the understanding of antiquity.
If you are interested in contributing to the series, please contact the series editor, Prof. Sophia Xenophontos ([email protected]), to discuss your project.
