K. F. B. Fletcher is Associate Professor of Classics at Louisiana State University, USA.Osman Umurhan is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of New Mexico, USA.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Where Metal and Classics Meet, K. F. B. Fletcher (Louisiana State University, USA) and O. Umurhan (University of New Mexico, USA)1. Vergil’s Aeneid and Nationalism in Italian Metal, K. F. B. Fletcher (Louisiana State University, USA)2. Eternal Defiance: Celtic Identity and the Classical Past in Heavy Metal, Matthew Taylor (Beloit College, USA)3. Screaming Ancient Greek Hymns: The Case of Kawir and the Greek Black Metal Scene, Christodoulos Apergis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)4. Cassandra’s Plight: Gender, Genre, and Historical Concepts of Femininity in Goth and Power Metal, Linnea Åshede (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Anna Foka, Sweden)5. Heavy Metal Dido: Heimdall’s “Ballad of the Queen”, Lissa Crofton-Sleigh (Santa Clara University, USA)6. A Metal monstrum: Ex Deo’s Caligula, Iker Magro-Martínez (University of the Basque Country, Spain)7. Occult and Pulp Visions of Greece and Rome in Heavy Metal, Jared Secord (Washington State University, USA)8. “When the Land was Milk and Honey and Magic was Strong and True”: Edward Said, Ancient Egypt, and Heavy Metal, Leire Olabarria (University of Oxford, UK)9. Coda: Some Trends in Metal’s Use of Classical Antiquity, Osman Umurhan (University of New Mexico, USA)BibliographyIndex

[The] first attempt to break new ground by marrying Classics with metal music studies in an edited volume.