Some contributions originated from a conference held in Durham in June 2013, others were specifically solicited for the volume.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Graeco-Roman antiquity and the idea of nationalism in the nineteeth century : introduction / Thorsten Fögen & Richard Warren -- Classical ideals and the formation of modern nations in Europe / Anthony D. Smith -- Making nations in the image of Greece : classical Greek conceptionsof the body in the construction of national identity in nineteenth-century England, France and Germany / Athena S. Leoussi -- "Je viens comme Thémistocle" : Napoleon and national identity after Waterloo / Tim Rood -- The Emperor's Caesar : Napoleon III, Karl Marx and the History of Julius Caesar / Edmund Richardson -- Faithful unto death : militarism, masculinity and national identity in Victorian Britain / Rosemary Barrow -- Constructing the nation and empire : Victorian and Edwardian images of the building of Roman fortifications / Richard Hingley -- Henry Courteney Selous' Boadicea and the Westminster Cartoon Competition / Richard Warren -- A nation finds its people : Friedrich Kohlrausch, new readers and readings of Tacitus' Germania and the rise of a popular German nationalism / Christopher B. Krebs -- Hermann the German : nineteenth-century monuments and histories / Michael Sommer -- Arminius in Bohemia : two uses of Tacitus in Czech art / Richard Warren -- Classical traditions and strands of Irish nationalism / Laurie O'Higgins.