Edited by Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature and Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, Fiona Macintosh, Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), and Fellow of St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, and Helen Eastman, Freelance director of theatre and opera and Artistic Associate at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), University of Oxford

Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Adjunct Professor at the universities of Copenhagen and Trondheim. He has published extensively on Latin literature and its reception, including the following volumes: A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 10 (OUP, 1991), Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (OUP, 2007), Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English (edited volume; OUP, 2009), Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays (co-edited with Amanda Wrigley; OUP, 2013), and Classics in the Modern World: A Democratic Turn? (co-edited with Lorna Hardwick; OUP, 2013).

Fiona Macintosh is Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), and Fellow of St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama (Cork University Press, 1994), Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre, 1660-1914 (with Edith Hall; OUP, 2005), and Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus (CUP, 2009), and has also edited numerous APGRD volumes, including most recently Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (with Justine McConnell, Stephen Harrison, and Claire Kenward; OUP, 2018) and The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas (with Kathryn Bosher, Justine McConnell, and Patrice Rankine; OUP, 2015).

Helen Eastman trained as a director at LAMDA after graduating from the University of Oxford, where she was the Passmore Edwards Scholar in Classics and English. She is currently an Artistic Associate at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) at the University of Oxford, Visiting Lecturer in Contemporary Performance Practice at Westminster University, Artistic Director of Live Canon, and Senior Reader at Soho Theatre. As a freelance director of theatre and opera (and also occasionally of circus), she has worked throughout the UK at venues including Trafalgar Studios, Hackney Empire, Belfast Opera House, Glasgow Citizens Theatre, Queens Theatre, BAC, The National Theatre Studio, The De La Warr Pavilion, and Bath Theatre Royal.

Neil Corcoran, Honorary Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Liverpool

Helen Eastman, freelance director of theatre and opera

Rachel Falconer, Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Lausanne

Rowena Fowler, independent scholar

Edith Hall, Professor of Classics at Kings College London

Lorna Hardwick, Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at the Open University

Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford

Rosie Lavan, Assistant Professor in Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin

Fiona Macintosh, Professor of Classical Reception , Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), and Fellow of St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford

Marianne McDonald MRIA, Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Classics at the University of California, San Diego

Peter McDonald, Professor of English at the University of Oxford

Bernard O'Donoghue, Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford

Michael Parker, Literature tutor at the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University.

Lucy Pitman-Wallace, freelance theatre director

Kathleen Riley, independent scholar and writer

Oliver Taplin FBA, Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford

"The first full examination of the Irish poet's rich contribution to the field of classical reception ... This rich volume provides an excellent handbook for the teaching of Heaney's classical receptions, and a welcome stimulus for further research." - Emma Bridges and Henry Stead, Greece & Rome

"... the essays in this collection offer the reader a comprehensive introduction to the massive ... influence that classical literature had on Heaney, both as a translator and a poet." - Sidney Burris, The Classical Review

"In all, this volume is rich in detail and methodological approaches, highly recommended for readers of Heaney and of the Classics." - Will Desmond, Maynooth University