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'An outstanding resource for future scholars of Wilde's immense classical learning.' The Times Literary Supplement 'Iain Ross's impressive analysis of Oscar Wilde's engagement with ancient Greece and Hellenism examines the way trends in Victorian scholarship, institutions, and texts influenced Wilde's lifelong love affair with Greek language and culture. Ross consults not only the editions of texts that Wilde used, but also, whenever possible, Wilde's own texts themselves with marginalia and extensive annotation, and provides interpretive analysis of this contradictory writer's often- complicated comments. This dedication to primary source material makes Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece an indispensible resource for anyone studying Wilde's engagement with the Classics, a topic that has only recently attracted the attention of scholars in Victorian Studies and Classical Reception.' Serena Witzke, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

'An outstanding resource for future scholars of Wilde's immense classical learning.' The Times Literary Supplement 'Iain Ross's impressive analysis of Oscar Wilde's engagement with ancient Greece and Hellenism examines the way trends in Victorian scholarship, institutions, and texts influenced Wilde's lifelong love affair with Greek language and culture. Ross consults not only the editions of texts that Wilde used, but also, whenever possible, Wilde's own texts themselves with marginalia and extensive annotation, and provides interpretive analysis of this contradictory writer's often- complicated comments. This dedication to primary source material makes Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece an indispensible resource for anyone studying Wilde's engagement with the Classics, a topic that has only recently attracted the attention of scholars in Victorian Studies and Classical Reception.' Serena Witzke, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 'Was Oscar Wilde's life a Greek tragedy, experienced as the working-out of the implacable curse laid on his line by some ancient god? That is the immediate question that springs to mind upon beginning Iain Ross's sparkling new book ... Ross's nuanced awareness of paradox honours Wilde's own, and makes the archival Bildungsroman of chapters 1-3 an engrossing read.' Gideon Nisbet, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies

'An outstanding resource for future scholars of Wilde's immense classical learning.' The Times Literary Supplement

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Iain Ross teaches English, Latin, Greek and Classical Civilisation at Colchester Royal Grammar School.

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