Seamus Heaney and the Classics

Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Adjunct Professor at the universities of Copenhagen and Trondheim. He has published extensively on Latin literature and its reception, including the following volumes: A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 10 (OUP, 1991), Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (OUP, 2007), Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English (edited volume; OUP, 2009), Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays (co-edited with Amanda Wrigley; OUP, 2013), and Classics in the Modern World: A Democratic Turn? (co-edited with Lorna Hardwick; OUP, 2013).Fiona Macintosh is Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), and Fellow of St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama (Cork University Press, 1994), Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre, 1660-1914 (with Edith Hall; OUP, 2005), and Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus (CUP, 2009), and has also edited numerous APGRD volumes, including most recently Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (with Justine McConnell, Stephen Harrison, and Claire Kenward; OUP, 2018) and The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas (with Kathryn Bosher, Justine McConnell, and Patrice Rankine; OUP, 2015).Helen Eastman trained as a director at LAMDA after graduating from the University of Oxford, where she was the Passmore Edwards Scholar in Classics and English. She is currently an Artistic Associate at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) at the University of Oxford, Visiting Lecturer in Contemporary Performance Practice at Westminster University, Artistic Director of Live Canon, and Senior Reader at Soho Theatre. As a freelance director of theatre and opera (and also occasionally of circus), she has worked throughout the UK at venues including Trafalgar Studios, Hackney Empire, Belfast Opera House, Glasgow Citizens Theatre, Queens Theatre, BAC, The National Theatre Studio, The De La Warr Pavilion, and Bath Theatre Royal.

• FrontmatterList of FiguresList of Contributors1: Stephen Harrison and Fiona Macintosh: Introduction2: Oliver Taplin: Boustrophedon between Hellas and Home3: Neil Corcoran: Antaeus on the Move4: Rowena Fowler: Heaney and Hesiod5: Rosie Lavan: Mycenae Lookout' and the Example of Aeschylus6: Lucy Pitman-Wallace: A Door into the Dark: Staging The Burial at Thebes7: Helen Eastman: Ancient Greek Sailors with Twentieth-Century Metaphors (and Pan-Chronic Trousers): Directing Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy8: Michael Parker: Speaking Truth to Power: Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes and the Poetry of Redress9: Marianne McDonald: Seamus Heaney: An Irish Poet Mines the Classics10: Bernard O'Donoghue: Heaney, Yeats, and the Language of Pastoral11: Peter McDonald: Weird Brightness' and the Riverbank: Seamus Heaney, Virgil, and the Need for Translation12: Rachel Falconer: Heaney and Virgil's Underworld Journey13: Kathleen Riley: The Forewarned Journey Back': Katabasis as Nostos in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney14: Edith Hall: Paving and Pencilling: Heaney's Inscriptions in J. W. Mackail's Translation of the Aeneid15: Stephen Harrison: Heaney as Translator: Virgil and Horace16: Lorna Hardwick: Epilogue: Heaney's Classical GroundEndmatterBibliographyIndex of Works of Seamus Heaney CitedIndex of Classical Works CitedGeneral Index

The first full examination of the Irish poet's rich contribution to the field of classical reception ... This rich volume provides an excellent handbook for the teaching of Heaney's classical receptions, and a welcome stimulus for further research.