Projects & Resources

Project Marginalia: En los Márgenes de la Tradición Clásica (On the Margins of Classical Tradition).

Marginalia is a research group that studies the presence of Classical Antiquity in modern popular culture. The project is interested in cinema, television, comic, video-games, music and other popular genres, such as science fiction, fantasy, horror literature and historical novels, among others. The project is composed by a group of scholars from different Spanish universities, including Imagines member Luis Unceta, and has received funding from the Ministry of Science and Innovation. 

One of the aims of Marginalia is to understand the meanings and functions that our modern consumer society attributes to Classical Antiquity, as well as to identify new languages and expressions generated by the influence of different dialogue forms between past and present. The project also investigates the impact of mass media and the globalised access to digital content on the renewed interest in and relevance of the Classical world today.

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thersites: Journal for Transcultural Presences and Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date

thersites is an international open access journal for innovative transdisciplinary classical studies edited by Christine Walde, Annemarie Ambühl, Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Christian Rollinger.

Founded in 2014, University of Mainz

  • thersites expands classical reception studies by reflecting on Greco-Roman antiquity as present phenomenon and diachronic culture that is part of today’s transcultural and highly diverse world. Antiquity, in our understanding, does not merely belong to the past, but is always experienced and engaged in the present.
  • thersites contributes to the critical review on methods, theories, approaches and subjects in classical scholarship, which currently seems to be awkwardly divided between traditional perspectives and cultural turns.
  • thersites brings together scholars, writers, essayists, artists and all kinds of agents in the culture industry to get a better understanding of how antiquity constitutes a part of today’s culture and (trans-)forms our present.

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Sammlung Stern – Altertumswissenschaftliches Filmarchiv

The Sammlung Stern originates in the work of archaeologist, film researcher and museum educationalist Tom Stern (1958-2016). The collection is hosted by the University of Göttingen and curated by Imagines member Dr Martin Lindner.

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