Framing Classical Reception Studies : Different Perspectives on a Developing Field

Framing Classical Reception Studies contains a representative number of analytic and synthetic contributions by scholars from diverse parts of the field of Classical Reception Studies. Together, they afford a synoptic view and typology of an extremely large and continuously diversifying discipline. Attentive to questions such as what, by whom, in what contexts and to what ends Classics have functioned and are functioning in our culture, all contributors ask themselves from what conceptual or disciplinary frame they approach the reception of the cultures of classical Greek and Roman antiquity. Within this questioning format, the book also contains suggestions for future agendas of research, and forcefully argues for the political, cultural and cognitive relevance of classical receptions in the Academy.

Maarten De Pourcq is Professor of European Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. After studying Classics, he received his Ph.D. degree with a dissertation on Roland Barthes and the Classics from the University of Leuven. His main research interest is classical reception studies in the 20th and 21st century.
Nathalie de Haan got her Ph.D. degree from the University of Nijmegen with a dissertation on private baths in the Roman world. She was Director of Studies in Archaeology at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. At present she is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research interests include the history of Classics in Italy in the 19th and 20th centuries.
David Rijser is Professor of Classical Receptions at the University of Groningen, and teaches Classics at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on Classical Receptions. His Antiquity Renewed: How Tiberius Landed in New Jersey, is published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.