How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece a

Romans in Victorian literature are at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decadents, and heroes of empire: this volume examines how these

"This book explores the reception of the classical world in painting from the mid-Victorian period to the second decade of the twentieth century and centres on

Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. It is the story of the headmaster who bludgeoned his wife to de

Offering a unique cross-cultural study, this book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence