A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 - A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 -

I Canons, media and genres MOTIVES AND METHODS THE INVENTION OF CLASSICS AND THE EMERGENCE OF CLASS What does 'Classics' mean?Naming a discipline A curriculum for gentlemen People's Classics at the London Fairs Whose Classics?Conclusion Notes WORKING-CLASS READERS Introduction The 18th century The early 19th-century market in second-hand classics Cheap serials, periodicals and mass-market editions Dent's Everyman's Library Notes TH-CENTURY WORKING CLASS POETS Workers' satirical classicism Stephen Duck on labour and leisure Mary Collier Thomas Blacklock Ann Yearsley Notes CLASSICS AND CLASS IN LIFE-WRITING Introduction Contexts and evidence Classical turning-points in eight workers' autobiographies Fictionalised turning-points Notes WORKING-CLASS CLASSICS VIA THE VISUAL ENVIRONMENT Cultural literacies Pompeii everywhere The built environment Working-class archaeologists and museum visitors The people's Parthenon Classics and class in painting Conclusion Notes STAGING CLASS STRUGGLE CLASSICALLY Introduction Classics in demotic theatre Censoring political theatre Staging the Gracchi brothers Knowles' revolutionary Romans Notes II Communities DISSENTING CLASSICS Joseph Priestley John Aikin (1713-1780)George Dyer Gilbert Wakefield William Godwin The training of Methodist preachers Lewis Edwards and Robert Roberts Conclusion Notes ADULT EDUCATION Adult Schools and Mutual Improvement Societies Mechanics' Institutes Working Men's Colleges From University Extension to the Workers' Educational Association Notes CLASSICS AND CLASS IN IRELAND Introduction Hedge school classicists Catholic classical scholars and poets Anglo-Irish loyalists Anglo-Irish radicals The Latin professor, the Easter Rising and the working class Robert Tressell's Platonic Cave of false ideology Notes SCOTTISH WORKING CLASSICS The lad o' pairts Aberdeen and the north-east Reprint Classics Thomas Carlyle Lewis Grassic Gibbon Notes CARACTACUS AND LLOYD GEORGE'S RECRUITING DRIVE IN WALES Introduction Caractacus between Britain and Wales Evans's Caractacus Caractacus and the children of Wales The outbreak of war Notes III Underdogs, underclasses, underworlds SEDITIOUS CLASSICISTS Introduction Late 18th-century democrats: Paine, Gerrald, Thelwall Before and after Peterloo: Carlile, Hibbert, Wedderburn Chartists: O'Brien, Jones, Cooper Conclusion Notes UNDERDOG PROFESSORS Introduction Richard Porson Upwardly mobile Edinburgh professors Joseph Wright Notes RAGGED-TROUSERED PHILOLOGISTS Downwardly mobile Devonians Andrew Donaldson, The fanatic of Fife Richard Robert Jones: 'Die of Aberdaron''Hawkie'Reverend George Martin Notes HINTERLAND GREEK Introduction Popish, Satanic and criminal Greek Greeklessness, race, gender and class The Greek of freakish animals Uncouth Caledonian Hellenists Arcane Greek lore Notes CLASSICAL UNDERWORLDS Introduction Showmen and Classics Classical burlesque and poses plastiques Classics and prostitution Classics, boxing and Devon Wrestling Classicist criminals and lunatics Notes CLASS AND THE CLASSICAL BODY Vulcana, La Milo and the Miniature Lady Hercules Sandow, Hercules and gladiators Class and cultural consumption The Scarborough Hercules and the Venus of the Pavilion Notes IV Working identities GODS AND HEROES OF THE PROLETARIAT Introduction: Iconic females Aesop the agitator Ancient ancestors Plutarch for the proletariat Promethean heat Classical labourers Nautical Neptunes Notes SHOEMAKER CLASSICS Pliny, Apelles and James Woodhouse 'Small profits do great things'The ultracrepidarian translator of Juvenal Dissenting shoemakers A Chartist cobbler Notes POTTERY WORKERS Introduction The rise of the Staffordshire potteries Josiah Wedgwood The Arts of Etruria Education via decoration Cheap reproductions Conclusion Notes CLASSICS AMONGST THE MINERS Emancipation via self-education Classical images of confinement Books in Wanlockhead and other mining communities University extension and County Durham miners Notes SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST SCHOLARS Introduction Early labour classicists Women classicists and the ILP Classical scholars in the CPGB Erudite activists Notes SOLDIERS: Dai and Diomedes on the Somme Introduction Private David Jones A new form for working-class War Poetry Classical banter in the trenches Into the dark wood The eternal goddesses of war Conclusion Notes THEATRE PRACTITIONERS Introduction British socialist theatre in the 1930s Theatre Union and the Greeks Lysistrata in Manchester Operation Olive Branch Notes AFTERWORD