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Classical tradition

Not to be confused with Classicism.
Vergil leading Dante on his journey in the Inferno, an image that dramatizes the continuity of the classical tradition[1] (Dante and Vergil in Hell by Delacroix, 1823)

The Western classical tradition is the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures, especially the post-classical West,[2] involving texts, imagery, objects, ideas, institutions, monuments, architecture, cultural artifacts, rituals, practices, and sayings.[3] Philosophy, political thought, and mythology are three major examples of how classical culture survives and continues to have influence.[4] The West is one of a number of world cultures regarded as having a classical tradition, including the Indian, Chinese, and Islamic traditions.[5]

The study of the classical tradition differs from classical philology, which seeks to recover "the meanings that ancient texts had in their original contexts."[6] It examines both later efforts to uncover the realities of the Greco-Roman world and "creative misunderstandings" that reinterpret ancient values, ideas and aesthetic models for contemporary use.[7] The classicist and translator Charles Martindale has defined the reception of classical antiquity as "a two-way process ... in which the present and the past are in dialogue with each other."[8]

  1. ^ Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition (Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. viii–ix.
  2. ^ Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition (Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. vii–viii.
  3. ^ Grafton, Most, and Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition, p. viii.
  4. ^ Grafton, Most, and Settis, entry on "mythology", in The Classical Tradition, p. 614 et passim.
  5. ^ Grafton, Most, and Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition, p. x.
  6. ^ Craig W. Kallendorf, introduction to A Companion to the Classical Tradition (Blackwell, 2007), p. 2.
  7. ^ Grafton, Most, and Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition, p. vii; Kallendorf, introduction to Companion, p. 2.
  8. ^ Charles Martindale, "Reception", in A Companion to the Classical Tradition (2007), p. 298.

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