Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia

Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia broadens the scope of the Western Classical tradition by offering pioneering insights (of leading scholars from Europe, East Asia, and North America) into East Asian receptions of Greco-Roman Antiquity.

Almut-Barbara Renger, Ph.D. (2001), Heidelberg University, is Professor of Ancient Religion, Culture and their Reception History at Freie Universitat Berlin. She has published monographs and many articles on the relationship of religion and literature, diverse aspects of cultural and religious theory, dynamics in the history of religions between Asia, Europe and America, and the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity, including Oedipus and the Sphinx: The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau (University of Chicago Press, 2013).Xin Fan, Ph.D. (2013), Indiana University, is Assistant Professor of East Asian History at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He has published several articles and is finishing a monograph on world history in China.Contributors are: Jaewon Ahn, Ikuho Amano, Shadi Bartsch, Luciana Cardi, Guangchen Chen, Byoung Jo Choe, Elizabeth Craik, Xin Fan, Neol Golvers, Chia-Lin Hsu, Yuh-Jhung Hwang, Sari Kawana, Deogsu Kim, Haiying Liu, Jinyu Liu, Xiaofeng Liu, Andreas Muller-Lee, Fritz-Heiner Mutschler, Rui Nakamura, Hiroshi Nara, Almut-Barbara Renger, Carla Scilabra, Ichiro Taida, Yang Huang, Tianshu Yu, and Lihua Zhang.