Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Homeric Shadow Chapter 1: Time Chapter 2: Syncretism Chapter 3: Re-Creation Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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About the Author

Justine McConnell is Reader in Comparative Literature and Classical Reception at King’s College London, UK. She is author of Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1939 (2013) and, with Fiona Macintosh, Performing Epic or Telling Tales (2020), and has co-edited four books on the reception of Graeco-Roman antiquity.