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Maria Wyke

Author of Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History

14+ Works 206 Members 2 Reviews

About the Author

Maria Wyke now holds the chair of Latin at University College London.

Works by Maria Wyke

Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History (1997) 45 copies

Caesar: A Life in Western Culture (2007) 45 copies

Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times (2014) 39 copies, 2 reviews

Cæsar in the USA (2012) 15 copies

Julius Caesar in Western Culture (2006) — Editor — 11 copies

Cleopatra: A Sphinx Revisited (2011) — Contributor — 11 copies

The Ancient World in Silent Cinema (2013) — Editor — 10 copies

Women in Ancient Societies: "An Illusion of the Night" (1994) — Editor — 9 copies

The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations (2002) 7 copies

Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean (Gender and History Special Issues) (1998) — Editor — 6 copies

Parchments of Gender: Deciphering the Body of Antiquity (1998) — Editor — 4 copies

Perceptions of Horace: A Roman Poet and His Readers (2009) — Editor — 2 copies

Roman Bodies: Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century (2005) — Editor — 1 copy

The Novel of Neronian Rome and its Multimedial Transformations: Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis (2020) — Editor — 1 copy

Associated Works

A Companion to Julius Caesar (2009) — Contributor — 38 copies

Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources (2002) — Contributor — 36 copies

Imperial Projections: Ancient Rome in Modern Popular Culture (Arethusa Books) (2001) — Contributor — 26 copies, 1 review

Constructions of the Classical Body (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) (1999) — Contributor — 14 copies

Augustus (Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World) (2009) — Contributor — 12 copies

History as text : the writing of ancient history (1989) — Contributor — 12 copies

Oxford Readings in Ovid (2006) — Contributor — 10 copies

Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789-1945 (1999) — Contributor — 8 copies

Reflections of Nero: Culture, History, & Representation (1994) — Contributor — 7 copies

Roman poetry and propaganda in the age of Augustus (1992) — Contributor — 5 copies

Roman Error: Classical Reception and the Problem of Rome's Flaws (2018) — Contributor — 4 copies

Roman literature and ideology--Ramus essays for J.P. Sullivan (1995) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Gender: female
Education: University of Oxford (Somerville| 1st Lit Hum.) 1980
University of Cambridge (Kings | PhD in Latin Literature) 1984
Birkbeck College/BFI (MAin Film and Television Studies) 1993
Occupations: research fellow
lecturer in classics
professor in classics
chair in Latin (UCL)
Organizations: University College London

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Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times by Christopher Pelling

Does exactly what I suspect the authors set out to do: inspire the reader to read, or re-read, the authors discussed. The authors write clearly, but engagingly.

Jan 11, 20151 other review

Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times by Christopher Pelling

An excellent, very well-written book, enjoyed it very much. An informal, sometimes even personal introduction to infamous classic authors by two scholars.

Jun 3, 20211 other review

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Works: 14
Also by: 12
Members: 206
Popularity: #107,331
Rating: 3.8

Reviews: 2
ISBNs: 40

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