Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship. This item is unavailable.Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship

Compromising Traditions is the first collection of theoretically informed autobiographical writing in the field of classical studies which aims to create a more expansive and authoritative form of classical scholarship.

Judith P. Hallett is Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland at College Park. She has published widely on Latin literature, women in Greek and Roman antiquity, and the study of classics in the United States. Thomas Van Nortwick is Professor of Classics at Oberlin College, where he has taught since 1974. He has published a number of autobiographical essays, as well as scholarly articles on Greek and Latin literature, and a book, Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: the Second Self and the Hero’s Journedy in Ancient Epic (1992).