Review of C. Walde (ed.) ‘The Reception of Classical Literature: Brill's New Pauly Supplement 5’
“The precise way any 'work' can be said to exist, and persist, is a central question for many disciplines beyond Classics. Some might already see a problem simply in this volume's encyclopedic context, which appears to have already answered that question by assuming that stable, autonomous 'texts' can travel through time via their continuous refashioning. Regardless of approach, a book whose goal is to survey the reception of all ancient texts, worldwide, in all forms, from the moment of 'text-creation' to the present, is of interest as a collection, if nothing else, for the challenge this represents.”