Marginality, Canonicity, Passion

The establishment of reception studies has had profound implications for the discipline of Classics, not least for the objects of classical study themselves. By definition, reception studies are uninterested in texts which have had no ‘success’, and while canonical texts tend to have an extensive reception history, works with a less robust Nachleben are left marginalized: canonicity becomes an implicit unspoken criterion of value. This volume examines the academic study of Classics from the perspectives of marginality, canonicity, and passion, exploring how the classical canon is shaped by its reception in different academic and cultural environments and unveiling the many subtle implications for the past and future development of the discipline.