Publisher's Synopsis
The occupation with objects from antiquity and the development of methods for this led both to the creation of a modern discipline of Classical Studies and to decisive impetuses for a re-orientation of other subjects such as theology and historical linguistics. In the present volume, leading scholars of antiquity visit the history of their disciplines from the perspective of present-day research by examining their historical, institutional and theoretical roots in 19th century Berlin - one of the main centres of this development.
