Argues that German classical philology personified antiquity and imagined scholarship as an inter-personal relationship with it.

Explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between classical philology and theology.

Reception studies has profoundly transformed Classics and its objects of study: while canonical texts demand much attention, works with a less robust Nachleben

Thanks to the digital revolution, even a traditional discipline like philology has been enjoying a renaissance within academia and beyond. Decades of work have

A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries n