TY - JOUR A1 - Matz, Alicia A1 - Paprocki, Maciej A2 - Ambühl, Annemarie A2 - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo A2 - Rollinger, Christian A2 - Walde, Christine T1 - There and Back Again: Tolkien and Greco-Roman Antiquity T2 - thersites 15 N2 - The following introduction sketches the status questionis of the research on the influence of Greco-Roman antiquity on the works of Tolkien and provides details about the volume’s theoretical impetus and its broad themes. The editors discuss Tolkien’s complicated and indirect relationship with classical models, underscoring certain emergent themes in volume’s contributions, such as decline, multifocal reception and relationship with nature. KW - Tolkien KW - classical reception Y1 - 2022 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/56522 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - i EP - xii ER -