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The reception of classical Greek and Latin culture has been an important aspect of Western civilization since antiquity itself. This tradition has undergone a number of challenges and transformations: the conquests of Alexander the Great and the adoption of Greek culture in Rome provided a first step towards a globalized civilization; the reception of classical culture in the Renaissance coincided with European expansion and colonialism and thus spread classical traditions to many parts of the world. Contemporary globalization has provided new challenges and has brought competing classical traditions into focus; nevertheless, antiquity remains a major component of European identity.
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See Mario Citroni, Gellio, 19, 8, 15 e la storia di classicus, in Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici 58/2007, pp. 181–205.
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Markus Asper, Gruppen und Dichter: zu Programmatik und Adressatenbezug bei Kallimachos, in Antike & Abendland 47/2001, pp. 84–116.
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Rudolf Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship. From the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
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Mario Fantuzzi/ Richard Hunter, Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Horaz, Episteln, 2, 1, 156f. in: Horatius, Opera, edited by Friedrich Klingner, Leipzig: Teubner 1959, p. 282 (3rd edition).
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Hieronymus, Epistulae, 22 and 30, in: Hieronymus, Epistulae, edited by Isidorus Hilberg (Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, CSEL 54–56), Volume 1, Vienna: F. Tempsky, 1910–1918, p. 190.
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See the important and influential study by Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, New York: Pantheon 1953 (German original: Europäische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1948).
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Martin McLaughlin, Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance. The Theory and Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to Bembo, Oxford: Clarendon, 1995.
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There is a tremendous amount of scholarship on these phenomena; for a first impression, see C. Daniel Elliott, Musa Americana. The Classics in the New World, Providence: John Carter Bown Library, 1988, and William J. Dominik, Afrika, in: Der Neue Pauly. Rezeptions- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 13, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1999: 22–26.
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Gilbert Highet, The Classical Tradition. Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949.
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See, e.g., Loma Hardwick/Christopher Stray (ed.), A Companion to Classical Receptions, Malden/Oxford: Blackwell, 2011.
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Schmitz, T.A. (2019). Reception of Antiquity. In: Kühnhardt, L., Mayer, T. (eds) The Bonn Handbook of Globality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90382-8_17
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