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One Rogers Street, Cambridge ma 02142-1209. Periodicals postage paid at Boston ma and at additional mailing of½ces. Introduction: Reassessing Greece & Rome Matthew S. Santirocco The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place. But their place is not simply back there, in a sepa- rate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. –David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country1 It is difficult to square the rhetoric about the cur- rent “crisis” in the humanities with the abundant, if anecdotal, evidence that Greco-Roman antiquity continues to thrive in the popular imagination. As I am writing this, Mary Beard’s new history of Rome is flying off the shelves; general interest magazines publish articles on Greek papyri; the first transla- MATTHEW S. SANTIROCCO, a tion of Homer’s Iliad by a woman has appeared to Fellow of the American Academy wide acclaim; the challenge of teaching ancient since 2009, is Professor of Clas- Greek made it to the op-ed pages of The New York sics, Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Times; a remake of the filmBen-Hur is scheduled for Ancient Studies, and Senior Vice release this summer; a traveling exhibition of large- Provost for Academic Affairs at scale Hellenistic bronzes has become a “must see” New York University. His numer- show of the season; productions of Greek tragedies ous publications include Unity and Design in Horace’s Odes (1986), and and their adaptations continue to be a staple of pro- the edited volumes Latinitas: The fessional and amateur theater; and television pro- Tradition and Teaching of Latin (1987), grams abound on ancient topics ranging from Cleo- Recovering Horace (1994), and Saving patra to the Colosseum.2 Of course, this preoccupa- the City: Destruction, Loss, and Recov- tion with the past has a negative side as well, since ery in the Ancient World (2003). A past even the modern attempt to mythologize Zenobia editor of the apa monograph se- as an Arab queen who resisted Roman power was ries, American Classical Studies (1989 – 1992), and the journal Classical not enough to save her city Palymra from those in World (1993–2012), he currently Syria who were hell-bent on erasing any signs of edits the Palgrave Macmillan se- what they deemed to be unorthodox. But even such ries The New An tiquity.