<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> Antiquity serves as a reference point for diverse forms of self-understanding in Western cultural and intellectual history. This raises questions concerning the degree to which the spatial, epistemic, and material dimensions of “antiquity” are relevant to processes of appropriation. This compendium explores the productivity of such limits by means of examples taken from different eras and disciplines.
