Classical Receptions Journal covers all aspects of the reception of the texts and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome from antiquity to the present day. It aims to explore the relationships between transmission, interpretation, translation, transplantation, rewriting, redesigning and rethinking of Greek and Roman material in other contexts and cultures. It addresses the implications both for the receiving contexts and for the ancient, and compares different types of linguistic, textual and ideological interactions. The journal promotes cross-disciplinary exchange and debates at the interface between subjects. It therefore welcomes submissions from researchers in Archaeology, Architecture, Art History, Comparative Literature, Film, Intellectual History, History of Scholarship, Political Science, Theatre Studies and Translation Studies as well as from those in Classics and Ancient History.

Research Articles

David Melnick’s Men in Aïda

Sean Alexander Gurd

Class Rec J 2016 8: 295-314

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‘Like wand’ring gipsy’: fortune-telling, the Spanish gipsy, and the Cassandra myth on the Victorian stage

Laura Monrós-Gaspar

Class Rec J 2016 8: 315-330

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Saviana Stănescu’s Barbarian women: the Empire Writes Back to Ovid

Holly Ranger

Class Rec J 2016 8: 331-356

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Oliver Stone’s Aristotle: heroism, displacement, and Aristotelian form in Alexander

Ricardo Apostol

Class Rec J 2016 8: 357-374

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‘In joy we prepare our lessons’: reading Camus’ Noces via their reception of the Eleusinian mysteries

Matthew Sharpe

Class Rec J 2016 8: 375-403

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‘Everything good we stood for’: exhibiting Greek art in World War II

Abigail Baker

Class Rec J 2016 8: 404-428

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