The nature of reception studies is highly interdisciplinary, including literature, art, music, film, and games.
[2] Tradition tends to put a premium on continuity, the simple passing down of one influence to another, the context that informed some earlier material.
[4] Reception, on the other hand, stresses the mediated, situated, contingent character of readings, and the concept that there is no final, correct meaning for any text.
"[9] Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray assert that Classical reception studies is devoted to examining "the ways in which Greek and Roman material has been transmitted, translated, excerpted, interpreted, rewritten, re-imaged and represented.
[12] Although reception theory originated from Hans Robert Jauss in the late 1960s, classicists took about 30 years to officially adopt the term.