Framing Classical Reception Studies. This item is unavailable.Framing Classical Reception Studies

Many study the reception of Classical Antiquity today. But why, how and from what conceptual or disciplinary frame? A number of selected representative chapters on these questions illustrate the remarkable diversity and vitality of Classical Receptions Studies and set the agenda for future research.

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.