Expurgating the Classics

Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles, including Vergil Aeneid 10 (1991), Homage to Horace (ed.) (1995), Apuleius: a Latin Sophist (2000), Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (2007).Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History and Classics, Swansea University, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Classics, University of London. He is a leading expert on the history of classical scholarship and the editor or co-editor of several collected volumes including Oxford Classics (2007), Remaking the Classics (2007), AE Housman (2009) and Classical Dictionaries (2010).

• Introduction: The Varieties of Expurgation Stephen Harrison and Christopher StrayExpurgation in Early Greek Lyric Ewen Bowie (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) 'Seeing the Meat for What It Is': Probing Aristophanic Phallacies Ian Ruffell (University of Glasgow) Headlam's Herodas Dan Orrells (Warwick University) Flowers in the wilderness: Greek epigram in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Gideon Norbit'Contempta Relinquas: Anxiety and Expurgation in Printed Editions of Lucretius' de rerum natura' David Butterfield (Queens' College, Cambridge) Expurgating Horace 1660-1900 Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) Modifying Martial in Nineteenth-century Britain T. J. Leary (Hampton School) Catullus and 'Comment in English': The Tradition of the Expurgated Commentary Before Fordyce Gail Trimble (Trinity College, Oxford) 'From Out the Schoolboy's Vision': Expurgation and the Young Reader James Morwood (Wadham College, Oxford) 'For the Gentleman and the Scholar': Sexual and Scatological References in the Loeb Classical Library Philip Lawton How to Fillet a Penguin: Remarks on Bowdlerizing the Classics Robert Crowe (Penguin Archive)AfterwordDeborah H. RobertsIndex

The cumulative impact of reading this book is to make the reader far more aware than he or she might have been of the decisions and impulses that go into producing texts, translations, and commentaries of Greek and Latin literature...This volume makes an original and valuable contribution to our knowledge about expurgation and the field of classics. Its various chapters present a host of fascinating examples, as well as enlightened theorizing on the topic.