***Announcing a new series from Duckworth***

Classical Diaspora
Series editor: Sarah Annes Brown

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All parts of the globe have been influenced by Greece and Rome, but the 
nature of that influence has varied enormously between different times and 
places. Some countries (those of Western Europe for example) experienced 
links of trade and empire two millennia ago, leaving a legacy in their 
language, education and legal systems. For countries such as Japan, on the 
other hand, the influence of the classical world was felt much later, and 
its impact has been more on high culture than on social and political 
systems. But the dynamics of each country’s relationship with classical 
culture are complex and nuanced. To take just one example - Great Britain, 
a barbarian land from the classical perspective, once gloried in its 
affinities with Rome. However now it is perhaps the United States which 
more nearly resembles Rome while Great Britain, with more cultural capital 
than military muscle, now plays the role of Greece.
Monographs published in this series will address issues of national and 
ethnic identity within classical studies and the series includes volumes 
devoted to the reception of classical culture within individual countries 
as well as studies of broader topics which relate to the notion of 
Classical Diaspora. The series will reflect the complex variety of the 
classical world’s legacy in fields as various as education, government, 
technology, literature, painting, cinema, philosophy and empire building.

Professor Sarah Annes Brown is based in the Department of English, 
Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University. As well as 
numerous articles and chapters on various aspects of classical reception, 
she is the author of The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes 
(1999) and of Ovid: Myth and Metamorphosis (2005), and is preparing a 
volume of essays, Tragedy in Transition (co-edited with Catherine 
Silverstone), for Blackwell. She is currently writing a monograph about 
transhistoricism.

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