Michael Silk is Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature at King’s College London and Adjunct Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Ingo Gildenhard is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College. Rosemary Barrow is Reader in Classical Art and Reception at the University of Roehampton.
<p> The authors are able to write a most readable book thathas the merit to summarize the topic of the afterlife of antiquitywith a variety not common in other books on the same subject. Theemphasis on architecture, and not only on visual arts, and thereferences to political and aesthetic thought are mostwelcome. (Enthymema, 28 November 2014)