The Classical Vase Transformed: Consumption, Reproduction, and Class in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain explores hitherto marginalized working-class and middle-class engagements with ancient Greek vases. Its origins lie in a symposium which took place in May 2016 at King’s College London, ‘Ancient Greek Pots and Class in Britain, 1798–1939’. This themed issue of BICS has three principal aims. First, to sharpen our awareness of the range of engagements with classical culture experienced at the lower end of the social spectrum, in the context of a scholarly focus on elites. Second, to help redress the balance within Classical Reception Studies, which is heavily skewed towards receptions of classical literature rather than classical material culture. And third, to increase the prominence of humble ceramics as compared to grand monumental sculpture, which remains the focus of studies on the reception of classical material culture.

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古典花瓶的变迁：18世纪和19世纪的英国消费，再生产和阶级探索了迄今被边缘化的工人阶级和中产阶级与古希腊花瓶的交往。它的起源在于2016年5月在伦敦国王学院举行的一次座谈会上，“英国的古希腊壶和班，1798年至1939年”。BICS的本期主题有三个主要目标。首先，在学术界关注精英的背景下，加深我们对社会文化低端经历的与古典文化交往的范围的认识。第二，帮助纠正古典接受研究中的平衡，这种平衡严重偏向接受古典文学而不是古典物质文化。第三，与宏伟的纪念性雕塑相比，要提高不起眼的陶瓷的突出性，这仍然是接受古典物质文化的研究重点。