--- title: Classical Reception description: Classical reception studies how the literature, art, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome have been interpreted, adapted, and used in later historical periods. Learners will understand the enduring influence of classical antiquity on modern society. category: humanities subcategory: classics difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/classical-reception --- # Classical Reception Classical reception studies how the literature, art, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome have been interpreted, adapted, and used in later historical periods. Learners will understand the enduring influence of classical antiquity on modern society. ## Available Resources 1 Books • 1 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Our Mythical Childhood Survey Research portal of the ERC-funded Our Mythical Childhood project at the University of Warsaw, including a searchable survey of Greek and Roman myth in children's and young adult books, films, and media. Shows how antiquity is adapted for young audiences. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/ **Tags:** classical-reception, greek-mythology, childrens-literature, young-adult-media, reception-studies ### 2. Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) Oxford research centre's free databases of ancient and modern productions of Greek and Roman drama and epic across stage, screen, radio, opera and dance, with study guides, podcasts, lecture recordings and two free interactive multimedia ebooks. Primary research tool with no equivalent: lets a learner trace any ancient play's performance history instead of reading about it second-hand. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ ## Podcasts ### 1. Lit Century **Author:** Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols Host Catherine Nichols and guests choose one book for each year of the twentieth century (Nella Larsen's Passing, 1936, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, 1966; Mohandas Gandhi's Indian Home Rule, 1909) and talk about it in its historical and literary context. Tune in to find out what the 20th century was all about. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.lithub.com **Tags:** 20th-century-literature, book-discussion, literary-history, author-interviews ### 2. Poetry Off the Shelf **Author:** Poetry Foundation Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.poetryfoundation.org/ **Tags:** poetry, poet-interviews, creative-process, contemporary-poetry ## Books ### 1. A Companion to Classical Receptions **Author:** Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray (eds.) The field's standard one-volume reference: theory, translation, performance, film and cultural politics in one place, each chapter with further reading. Thirty-four essays in nine parts on how Greek and Roman culture has been transmitted, translated, adapted and contested, from reception within antiquity to film, performance and cultural politics, including Arabic literature and South African drama. 556 pages. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1444339222?tag=edmonddante07-20 ### 2. Reception Studies (2nd edition, New Surveys in the Classics 49) **Author:** Lorna Hardwick The standard short entry point to the field, written by the scholar who shaped its working vocabulary.Short survey of the concepts and frameworks of classical reception studies, covering reception within antiquity and later case studies from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and the USA. Second edition of the 2003 Classical Association volume, revised for 2025. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1009614835?tag=edmonddante07-20 ### 3. Classical Reception **Author:** Anastasia Bakogianni Monograph published by the Institute of Classical Studies (London) tracing Electra through the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, then through case studies of her reception in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century works. Shows how one tragic heroine is reinterpreted across eras. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1905670370?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, classics --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/classical-reception