{"product_id":"spqr-in-the-ussr-elena-shvartss-classical-antiquity-9781839540530","title":"SPQR in the USSR: Elena Shvarts's Classical Antiquity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Georgina Barker\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Legenda\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Legenda\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Russian \u0026amp; Former Soviet Union\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince her rise to notoriety among the dissident artists of the 1970s Leningrad underground, Elena Shvarts (1948-2010) has earned a place in the canon of great Russian poets for the originality, riotousness, beauty, and deceptive erudition of her poetry. Many of Shvarts's greatest poems were inspired by classical antiquity - the literature, myth, and history of ancient Rome and Greece. Her antiquity is never static: it evolves in response to the seismic changes that Russia underwent during her lifetime. In this in-depth study Georgina Barker follows Shvarts's transcendental and escapist encounters with classical antiquity from wild youth to defiant old age, and discovers Shvarts shaping antiquity to fit herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn appendix of Barker's translations of Shvarts's classical poems and archival transcriptions of previously unpublished poems gives anglophone and russophone readers alike unprecedented access to Elena Shvarts's classical antiquity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorgina Barker is Leverhulme Early-Career Fellow in the Department of Greek and Latin at UCL.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Legenda","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47594240016535,"sku":"9781839540530","price":2490.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781839540530.webp?v=1774985231","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/spqr-in-the-ussr-elena-shvartss-classical-antiquity-9781839540530","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}