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The Image of Classics and Classicists in Modern Fiction: Seducers, Slayers and Survivors

The Image of Classics and Classicists in Modern Fiction: Seducers, Slayers and Survivors

Mills, Sophie

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Ancient History General

ISBN10: 1032256990
ISBN13: 9781032256993
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores the portrayal of the discipline of Classics and its practitioners as it emerges from fiction written in the United Kingdom and the United States from the 19th century to the present day.

This is the first book-length treatment of Classics and its practitioners in the popular imagination. It begins with a discussion of the unique role of Classics in British and North American education, before examining selected earlier fictional representations of classicists from the 19th century to c.1960. The third chapter explores the topic thematically, showing certain tendencies in the portrayal of the discipline and its practitioners in fiction, offering readers copious examples of fictional classicists of varying degrees of fame. The final chapter explores the image of Classics since Donna Tartt's famous portrayal of Classics majors in The Secret History (1992), focusing on the paradoxical growth of novels about classicists in the context of the discipline's increasingly tenuous position in educational curricula, followed by a brief appendix on Classics and Dark Academia.

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