Although Antiquity itself has been intensively researched, together with its reception, to date this has largely happened in a compartmentalized fashion. This series presents for the first time an interdisciplinary contextualization of the productive acquisitions and transformations of the arts and sciences of Antiquity in the slow process of the European societies constructing a scientific system and their own cultural identity, a process which started in the Middle Ages and has continued up to the Modern Age.

The series is a product of work in the Collaborative Research Centre “Transformations of Antiquity” and the “August Boeckh Centre of Antiquity” at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Their individual projects examine transformational processes on three levels in particular - the constitutive function of Antiquity in the formation of the European knowledge society, the role of Antiquity in the genesis of modern cultural identities and self-constructions, and the forms of reception in art, literature, translation and media.

* new transdisciplinary series
* the editors are prominent professors from different disciplines at the Humboldt University of Berlin
* strengthens de Gruyter's profile in Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Intellectual History

Eines der Leitmotive der antiken Bildhauerkunst ist die Orientierung an Werken vergangener Epochen. Bei der Beschäftigung mit idealplastischen Skulpturen von der Hand griechischer Bildhauer, die im späten Hellenismus und in der römischen Kaiserzeit tätig gewesen sind, stellt sich daher häufig die Frage, ob die Bildhauer im Einzelfall ein berühmtes Vorbild kopiert oder aber eine klassizistische Neuschöpfung kreiert haben. Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage sind in der Forschung immer wieder Skulpturen herangezogen worden, die als antik angesehen wurden, ohne es tatsächlich zu sein. Ihnen und der Arbeitsweise der griechischen Bildhauer, die ältere Werke rezipiert haben, gilt die vorliegende Studie.

Although Antiquity itself has been intensively researched, together with its reception, to date this has largely happened in a compartmentalized fashion. This series presents for the first time an interdisciplinary contextualization of the productive acquisitions and transformations of the arts and sciences of Antiquity in the slow process of the European societies constructing a scientific system and their own cultural identity, a process which started in the Middle Ages and has continued up to the Modern Age.

The series is a product of work in the Collaborative Research Centre “Transformations of Antiquity” and the “August Boeckh Centre of Antiquity” at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Their individual projects examine transformational processes on three levels in particular ‒ the constitutive function of Antiquity in the formation of the European knowledge society, the role of Antiquity in the genesis of modern cultural identities and self-constructions, and the forms of reception in art, literature, translation and media.