Editing Classics (section)

===Reception studies===
{{main|Classical reception studies}}
Another discipline within the classics is "reception studies",<ref>{{harvnb|Bulwer|2005|p=13}}</ref> which developed in the 1960s at the [[University of Konstanz]].<ref name="Kallendorf07-02">{{harvnb|Kallendorf|2007|p=2}}</ref>
Reception studies is concerned with how students of classical texts have understood and interpreted them.<ref name="Kallendorf07-02"/>
As such, reception studies is interested in a two-way interaction between reader and text,<ref name="Martindale07-298"/> taking place within a historical context.<ref>{{harvnb|Martindale|2007|p=301}}</ref>

Though the idea of an "aesthetics of reception" was first put forward by [[Hans Robert Jauss]] in 1967, the principles of reception theory go back much earlier than this.<ref name="Martindale07-298">{{harvnb|Martindale|2007|p=298}}</ref>
As early as 1920, [[T. S. Eliot]] wrote that "the past [is] altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past";<ref>{{harvnb|Eliot|1920|p=45}}</ref> Charles Martindale describes this as a "cardinal principle" for many versions of modern reception theory.<ref name="Martindale07-298"/>