Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction Phiroze Vasunia, University College London, UK Part I: Verse (and Some Prose) 1. Disagreement, Complexity and the Politics of Homer’s Verbal Form Ahuvia Kahane, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2. Sophocles’ Antigone, Feminism’s Hegel and the Politics of Form Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, UK 3. The Aporia of Action and the Agency of Form in Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Aulis Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto, Canada 4. Forms of Survival Susan Stephens, Stanford University, USA Part II: Prose (and Some Verse) 5. The Politics of Informed Form: Plato and Walter Benjamin Andrew Benjamin, Monash University, Australia 6. Plato’s Seventh Letter, or How to Fashion a Subject of Resistance Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, USA 7. Body Politics in Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric Nancy Worman, Barnard College/Columbia University, USA 8. Aristotle’s Lost Works for the Public and the Politics of Academic Form Edith Hall, King’s College London, UK 9. Politics and Form in Xenophon Rosie Harman, University College London, UK Part III: Word and Image 10. The Politics of Form in Eighteenth-Century Visions of Ancient Greece Daniel Orrells, King’s College London, UK 11. Ekphrasis, Leo Spitzer and the Politics of Form Ruth Webb, Université Lille, France Notes Bibliography Index

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Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London, UK. He is author of The Classics and Colonial India (2013) and co-editor (with D. L. Selden) of The Oxford Handbook of the Literatures of the Roman Empire (in progress) and (with Susan A. Stephens) of Classics and National Cultures (2010). He is series editor of Bloomsbury's Ancients and Moderns series.