Based on a conference at Wellesley College in October 1990.
Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is a paperback reprint of a hardback originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1993, and derived from a seminal conference held at Wellesley in 1990. Among the scholarly community, the book is generally regarded as the first critical milestone in the cultural poetics movement, which lies at the intersection of New Historicism and classical studies.