Tolkien and the Classical World

Tolkien and the Classical World is a collection of essays examining possible influences of Roman, Greek, and early Germanic mythology or culture on J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. As the forty-fifth book of the Cormarë Series, it was released at the start of 2021.
==Essays==
*Introduction by Hamish Williams, "Classical Tradition, Modern Fantasy, and the Generic Contracts of Readers"
*I: Classical Lives and Histories
**Hamish Williams, "Tolkien the Classicist: Scholar and Thinker"
**Ross Clare, "Greek and Roman Historiographies in Tolkien's Númenor"
*II: Ancient Epic and Myth
**Giuseppe Pezzini, "The Gods in Tolkien's Epic: Classical Patterns of Divine Interaction"
**Benjamin Eldon Stevens, "Middle-earth as Underworld: From Katabasis to Eucatastrophe"
**Austin M. Freeman, "Pietas and the Fall of the City: A Neglected Virgilian Influence on Middle-earth's Chief Virtue"
**Peter Astrup Sundt, "The Love Story of Orpheus and Eurydice in Tolkien's Orphic Middle-earth"
*III: In Dialogue with the Greek Philosophers
**Michael Kleu, "Plato's Atlantis and the Post-Platonic Tradition in Tolkien's Downfall of Númenor"
**Łukasz Neubauer, "Less Consciously at First but More Consciously in the Revision: Plato's Ring of Gyges as a Putative Source of Inspiration for Tolkien's Ring of Power"
**Julian Eilmann, "Horror and Fury: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin and the Aristotelian Theory of Tragedy"
*IV: Around the Borders of the Classical World
**Philip Burton, "'Eastwards and Southwards': Philological and Historical Perspectives on Tolkien and Classicism"
**Richard Z. Gallant, "The Noldorization of the Edain: The Roman-Germani Paradigm for the Noldor and Edain in Tolkien's Migration Era"
**Juliette Harrisson, "'Escape and Consolation': Gondor as the Ancient Mediterranean and Rohan as the Germanic World in The Lord of the Rings"
*V: Shorter Remarks and Observations
**Alley Marie Jordan, "Shepherds and the Shire: Classical Pastoralism in Middle-earth"
**Oleksandra Filonenko and Vitalii Shchepanskyi, "Classical Influences on the Role of Music in Tolkien's Legendarium"
*Afterword by Graham J. Shipley, "Tolkien's Response to Classics in Its Wider Context"
==External links==
*Official page
*Amazon.com
==See also== 
*Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
Category:Books of the Cormarë Series
Category:2021 publications
Category:Essay collections
Category:Secondary literature
Category:Publications by Walking Tree Publishers