Introduction

Abstract

This special issue brings together six of the papers delivered at a conference Anachronism and Antiquity: Configuring Temporalities in Ancient Literature and Scholarship held at Florida State University in March 2018 in connection with the Leverhulme-funded project Anachronism and Antiquity based at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford (October 2016–September 2019).1 The goal of the Anachronism and Antiquity project was to undertake a systematic study of the concept of anachronism in Greco-Roman antiquity and of the role played by the idea of anachronism in the formation of the concept of antiquity itself. Topics that fall within its scope include: the post-classical origins of the term ‘anachronism’ and its application in modern scholarship in Classics and the philosophy of history; the presence of anachronism in a variety of classical texts, including drama, historiography, and philosophy, and in material objects; and approaches to the concept in ancient criticism and scholarship. The expectation was that analysis of these topics would result in an increasingly diverse notions of anachronism and ancient temporality, challenging thereby many modern conceptualizations of the history of temporality. The project’s focus on both classical and modern material was picked up in the papers offered at the conference and presented in this special issue of Classical Receptions Journal. In this Introduction, we set out some of the issues raised by the study of anachronism in antiquity and in relation to the field of classical reception.

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