Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds - Lorna Hardwick & Carol Gillespie

Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds

By Lorna Hardwick & Carol Gillespie

  • Release Date: 2010-07-29
  • Genre: Literary Criticism

Description

Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects and put to new uses. In this collection of essays, international scholars debate the relationship between the culture of Greece and Rome and the changes that have followed the end of colonial empires.