Richard WarrenDr. Richard Warren is a research associate at Masaryk University, Brno. An alumnus of Oxford, Lund and Durham universities, his research focuses on the relationship between classical antiquity and nineteenth- and twentieth- century European art. He co-edited Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century (2016), and is author of the monographs Art Nouveau and the Classical Tradition (2017), Sex, Symbolists and the Greek Body (2019), and Classics and Modernism in Central European Art: 1900-1939 (forthcoming). He is both a student and practitioner of classical reception as author of Heresy Alpha (2026, UpLit Press), part one of The Marian Imperium, a trilogy of counterfactual fantasy novels about a gynocratic, scientifically-advanced Byzantium premised on worship of the Virgin Mary. Read More Read Less