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
