Expurgating the Classics

In the first collection to be devoted to this subject, a distinguished cast of contributors explores expurgation in both Greek and Latin authors in ancient and modern times. The major focus is on the period from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, with chapters ranging from early Greek lyric and Aristophanes through Lucretius, Horace, Martial and Catullus to the expurgation of schoolboy texts, the Loeb Classical Library and the Penguin Classics. The contributors draw on evidence from the papers of editors, and on material in publishing archives. The introduction discusses both the different types of expurgation, and how it differs from related phenomena such as censorship.

Introduction: The Varieties of Expurgation Stephen Harrison and Christopher StrayExpurgation in Early Greek Lyric Ewen Bowie (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) 'Seeing the Meat for What It Is': Probing Aristophanic Phallacies Ian Ruffell (University of Glasgow) Headlam's Herodas Dan Orrells (Warwick University) Flowers in the wilderness: Greek epigram in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Gideon Norbit'Contempta Relinquas: Anxiety and Expurgation in Printed Editions of Lucretius' de rerum natura' David Butterfield (Queens' College, Cambridge) Expurgating Horace 1660-1900 Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) Modifying Martial in Nineteenth-century Britain T. J. Leary (Hampton School) Catullus and 'Comment in English': The Tradition of the Expurgated Commentary Before Fordyce Gail Trimble (Trinity College, Oxford) 'From Out the Schoolboy's Vision': Expurgation and the Young Reader James Morwood (Wadham College, Oxford) 'For the Gentleman and the Scholar': Sexual and Scatological References in the Loeb Classical Library Philip Lawton How to Fillet a Penguin: Remarks on Bowdlerizing the Classics Robert Crowe (Penguin Archive)AfterwordDeborah H. RobertsIndex