Afterword: Omni-Local Classical Receptions

Abstract

This afterword reviews the articles in this special issue on classical receptions in Eastern and Central Europe in light of debates about the cultural identity of classical reception studies and the dominant role that European classical receptions play in this field. I argue that the focus on Eastern and Central Europe draws our attention to different versions of and very different orientations within Europe, and thereby contributes to a decentred model of European classical receptions. This decentred model is more attuned to a cosmopolitan, comparative approach to classical reception studies in which the translatability and cultural mobility of Greek and Roman works are omni-local, rather than universal.