Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions

Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas is Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek at the University of Granada, Spain.Leire Olabarria is Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham, UK.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsForeword. On the Usefulness of What Didn’t Happen, Will Tattersdill (University of Glasgow, UK)AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions, Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas (University of Granada, Spain) and Leire Olabarria (University of Birmingham, UK)Section 1. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi. History between Chance and Determinism 1. ‘Delenda Est’: Counterfactual and Narratological Obligations in Poul Anderson’s Gerundive History, Genevieve Liveley (University of Bristol, UK)2. Counter-Apostate, Counter-Christianity in John Christopher’s Fireball, Ryan C. Fowler (Franklin & Marshall College, USA)3. ‘All that is Solid Melts into Air’: Destabilizing history in Robert Silverberg’s Roma Eterna, Sarah Annes Brown (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) 4. What if Aristotle Had Known (Better)? Lyon Sprague de Camp and the Counterfactual Exploration of Civilization and Progress, F. Javier Campos-Daroca (University of Almería, Spain)Section 2. Narratives of Power in Uchronias: between ‘Big Men’ and Underrepresented Voices 5. The Triumph of Greek Civilization? Projecting Ancient Greece into an Alternate Future, Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, USA)6. Emperor Julian’s American Dream, Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas (University of Granada, Spain) and Elia Otranto (University of Granada, Spain)7. Alternat(iv)e Fiction in T. S. Chaudhry’s The Queen of Sparta: Unrepresented Voices and Counterfactuality, Lynn S. Fotheringham (University of Nottingham, UK)Section 3. Art, Culture, and the Poetics of Counterfactuals 8. ‘A Picture that Can Only Ever Come in Parts’: Alternate Histories of the Arts in Catherynne M. Valente’s Radiance, Benjamin E. Stevens (Howard University, USA)9. How Place Creates Time: Imagined Architecture as an Expression of Identity in Ramona Wheeler’s Three Princes, Leire Olabarria (University of Birmingham, UK)10. Antiquity Interrupted: Partial Receptions as Counterfactuals, Jesse Weiner (Hamilton College, USA)NotesBibliographyIndex

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