Yadegar Asisi – författare

Although Antiquity itself has been intensively researched, together with its reception, to date this has largely happened in a compartmentalized fashion. This series presents for the first time an interdisciplinary contextualization of the productive acquisitions and transformations of the arts and sciences of Antiquity in the slow process of the European societies constructing a scientific system and their own cultural identity, a process which started in the Middle Ages and has continued up to the Modern Age.The series is a product of work in the Collaborative Research Centre “Transformations of Antiquity” and the “August Boeckh Centre of Antiquity” at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Their individual projects examine transformational processes on three levels in particular ‒ the constitutive function of Antiquity in the formation of the European knowledge society, the role of Antiquity in the genesis of modern cultural identities and self-constructions, and the forms of reception in art, literature, translation and media.

Der Tagungsband behandelt visuelle und literarische Bilder, die sich Künstler und Wissenschaftler von der Spätantike bis in unsere Gegenwart vom antiken Rom gemacht haben. Anlass der Tagung war das kolossale Panorama Rom 312 von Yadegar Asisi, das 2005-2009 in Leipzig gezeigt wurde. Die Beiträge fragen nach der Art und Weise, wie die Rom-Idee jeweils verarbeitet und in den kulturellen Kontext einer Epoche wie auch der beteiligten Akteure übersetzt wurde.