Matthew Potolsky is Professor of English at the University of Utah. He has published widely on the literature and culture of the fin de siècle in Britain and France and is the author of Mimesis (2006), The Decadent Republic of Letters: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley (2013), and The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy (2019), and is co-editor of Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (1998).

• Critical Introduction Textual Introduction The Myth of Demeter and Persephone A Study of Dionysus The Beginnings of Greek Sculpture / I. The Heroic Age of Greek Art / II. The Age of Graven Images The Marbles of Aegina The Bacchanals of Euripides The Age of Athletic Prizemen Textual Variants Explanatory Notes Appendix A: Ancient Sources in Classical Studies Appendix B: Shadwell's 'Preface' to Greek Studies (1895)

Careful readers of Pater will owe a debt of gratitude to Potolsky for garnering much useful material.

Matthew Potolsky is Professor of English at the University of Utah. He has published widely on the literature and culture of the fin de siècle in Britain and France and is the author of Mimesis (2006), The Decadent Republic of Letters: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley (2013), and The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy (2019), and is co-editor of Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (1998).

• Critical Introduction Textual Introduction The Myth of Demeter and Persephone A Study of Dionysus The Beginnings of Greek Sculpture / I. The Heroic Age of Greek Art / II. The Age of Graven Images The Marbles of Aegina The Bacchanals of Euripides The Age of Athletic Prizemen Textual Variants Explanatory Notes Appendix A: Ancient Sources in Classical Studies Appendix B: Shadwell's 'Preface' to Greek Studies (1895)

Careful readers of Pater will owe a debt of gratitude to Potolsky for garnering much useful material.

Matthew Potolsky is Professor of English at the University of Utah. He has published widely on the literature and culture of the fin de siècle in Britain and France and is the author of Mimesis (2006), The Decadent Republic of Letters: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley (2013), and The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy (2019), and is co-editor of Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (1998).

• Critical Introduction Textual Introduction The Myth of Demeter and Persephone A Study of Dionysus The Beginnings of Greek Sculpture / I. The Heroic Age of Greek Art / II. The Age of Graven Images The Marbles of Aegina The Bacchanals of Euripides The Age of Athletic Prizemen Textual Variants Explanatory Notes Appendix A: Ancient Sources in Classical Studies Appendix B: Shadwell's 'Preface' to Greek Studies (1895)

Careful readers of Pater will owe a debt of gratitude to Potolsky for garnering much useful material.