Brills companion to the reception of classics in international modernism and the avant garde Introduction: modernist studies at the crossroads of classical reception: Seferis reads Eliot and Cavafy Adam J. Goldwyn and James Nikopoulos The female colossus in the new world: innovations on a classical motif in Jose Martis Modernismo Tyler Fisher and Jenni Lehtinen Educating the perfect imagist : Greek literature and classical scholarship in the poetry of H.D. Bryan Brinkman and Bartholomew Brinkman Creating the modern rhapsode: the classics as world literature as in Ezra Pounds Cantos Adam J. Goldwyn From ithaca to Magna Graecia Icaria and Hyperborea : some aspects of the classical tradition in the Serbian avant garde Bojan Jovic Gods heroes and myths: the use of classical imagery in Spanish avant garde prose Juan Herrero Senes The classical ideal in Fernando Pessoa Kenneth David Jackson Ulysses island : nostos as exile in Salvatore Quasimodos poetry Ernesto Livorni Jean Cocteau Orphee and the shock of the old David Hammerbeck The classical past and the history of ourselves: Laura Ridings Trojan woman Anett Jessop Platonic eros and the soul leading in C. S. Lewis Samuel Baker The Heideggerian origins of a post Platonist Plato William H.F. Altman Albert Camus Hellenic heart between Saint Augustine and Hegel Matthew Sharpe A modernist poet alludes to an ancient historian: George Seferis and Thucydides Polina Tambakaki The Wisdom of Myth: Eliots Ulysses Order and Myth James Nikopoulos