TY - BOOK ID - 86076637 TI - Reception in the Greco-Roman world AU - Fantuzzi, Marco AU - Whitmarsh, Tim AU - Morales, Helen PY - 2021 SN - 9781316518588 9781108995320 9781108993845 1009007629 1009008390 1108993842 PB - Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Classical literature KW - Greek literature KW - Reader-response criticism. KW - Greek influences. KW - History and criticism. KW - Appreciation. KW - Greek literature. KW - Greek influence. KW - Reader-response criticism KW - Reader-oriented criticism KW - Reception aesthetics KW - Criticism KW - Reading KW - Literature, Classical KW - Literature KW - Literature, Ancient KW - Latin literature KW - Greek influence KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86076637 AB - The embrace of reception theory has been one of the hallmarks of classical studies over the last 30 years. This volume builds on the critical insights thereby gained to consider reception within Greek antiquity itself. Reception, like 'intertextuality', places the emphasis on the creative agency of the later 'receiver' rather than the unilateral influence of the 'transmitter'. It additionally shines the spotlight on transitions into new cultural contexts, on materiality, on intermediality and on the body. 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. 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. ER -