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`This is an important book, which opens up a rich new field for classical reception studies. But more than that, it is a truly delightful book - a Wonderland of insights and surprises, as enchanting as it is learned.' - Edmund Richardson, Lecturer in Classics, Durham University, author of Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity, `The contributors offer here a feast of information and striking perspectives on previously neglected topics. As well as marking out new ground in the field of children's literature, this volume will generate greater understanding of the variety of ways in which classical themes and figures filter into the wider public imagination and often transform it. A great book!' - Lorna Hardwick, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies, Open University, co-editor of Classics in the Modern World, of A Companion to Classical Receptions and of Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds, and co-series editor of the 'Classical Presences' book series, `This is an imaginative and scholarly collection, with a hugely impressive list of contributors. I learned something new on almost every page.' - Catherine Butler, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Cardiff University, co-author of Reading History in Children's Books and co-editor of Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction

Innovative and instructive, this excellent collection includes contributions from an author of more than thirty books for young readers and others ... [and] several distinguished classicists ... this book is imaginatively conceived and edited with skill ... specialists in the reception of classical antiquity or in children's literature will find the collection worthwhile. * Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures *

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Owen Hodkinson is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Cultures at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Authority and Tradition in Philostratus' Heroikos (2011) and of Metafiction in Classical Literature: The Invention of Self-Conscious Fiction (2017, forthcoming). Helen Lovatt is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. Her books include Statius and Epic Games: Sport, Politics and Poetics in the Thebaid (2005), The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic (2013) and In Search of the Argonauts: The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece (I.B.Tauris, forthcoming 2018).

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