Book: New Antiquities
Chapter: Introduction: What are New Antiquities?
Blurb:
The myriad and potent effects of Mediterranean antiquity in a diversity of cultural and social contexts constitutes a field of research which for some decades has been known as ‘(Classical) reception studies.’ The present volume, which contains the fruits of the 2014 workshop “New Antiquities” (see below), departs from this scholarly enterprise in examining what we have called “Transformations of Ancient Religion.”