Information on this title: doi: 10.1017/9781108993845 © Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge 2021 This publication is in copyright.
It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, ny 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, Australia 314–321, 3rd Floor, Plot 3, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi – 110025, India 79 Anson Road, #06–04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. Literary Studies in Theory and Practice Edited by M AR C O FA NT U Z Z I Roehampton University, London HE L E N M O R AL E S University of California, Santa Barbara T IM W HI T M A R S H University of Cambridge He is a Fellow of the British Academy.Ĭ a m b r i d g e cl a s s i c a l st u d i e s General editors He is the author of nine books, including Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World (2015), and edits the Oxford Classical Dictionary. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge. She is co-editor of Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature. Her most recent book is Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths (2020). helen morales is Argyropoulos Professor in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book is an edition of the Rhesus attributed to Euripides for Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries (2020). marco fantuzzi is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Roehampton, London. This volume is dedicated to Professor Richard Hunter in gratitude for his pioneering contributions to the study of Greek literature. Whereas the conventional image of ancient Greek classicism is one of quiet reverence, this book, by contrast, demonstrates how rumbustious, heterogeneous, and combative it could be. Essays range chronologically from the archaic to the Byzantine periods and address literature (prose and verse Greek, Roman, and Greco-Jewish), philosophy, papyri, inscriptions, and dance. It additionally shines the spotlight on transitions into new cultural contexts, on materiality, on intermediality, and on the body. Reception, like ‘intertextuality’, places the emphasis on the creative agency of the later ‘receiver’ rather than the unilateral influence of the ‘transmitter’. This volume builds on the critical insights thereby gained to consider reception within Greek antiquity itself.
The embrace of reception theory has been one of the hallmarks of classical studies over the last thirty years. R E C EP T I O N IN T H E G RE C O - RO M A N WO R L D