Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Literary Reception and Material Culture

Drawing together a range of examples, this volume explores the tombs of the ancient poets - real or otherwise - in the ancient cultural imagination, and the ways in which they act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry, uniquely positioned as they are between literary reception and material culture.

Nora Goldschmidt is Assistant Professor of Classics at Durham University. She is the author of Shaggy Crowns: Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid (Oxford University Press, 2013) and is currently completing a monograph on fictional biography and the reception of Latin poetry, Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (under contract with Cambridge University Press).

Barbara Graziosi is Professor of Classics and Head of Department at Durham University. Her most recent monographs are The Gods of Olympus: A History (Profile Books, 2014) and Homer (Oxford University Press, 2016). She recently completed a major research project, funded by the European Research Council, on visual and narrative portraits of the ancient Greek and Roman poets, entitled Living Poets: A New Approach to Ancient Poetry. This volume stems from that project.