Prof. Irene de Jong & Prof. Antje Wessels

Projects on important literary and artistic innovations, the invention of new forms of literature and art, and their relation to pre-existing models.

Prof. Josine Blok & Prof. Teun Tieleman

Issues of authority in cultic innovations, innovations in priesthood, and foundations of civic festivals from the point of view of successful or unsuccessful anchoring.

Prof. Josine Blok & Prof. Onno van Nijf

How and why did political innovation come about and how were such innovations anchored (more or less) successfully?

Dr Stephan Mols & Prof. Teun Tieleman

Case studies of dramatic innovations in technology, science and material culture, where we can study anchoring processes and their outcomes in detail.

Dr Susanna de Beer, Dr Bettina Reitz-Joosse & Prof. Eric Moormann

Antiquity itself can serve as an anchor in and through a long history of reception.

Prof. Ineke Sluiter & whole team

The team jointly strives to develop a theory of Anchoring Innovation. This group guarantees optimal collaboration between all domains and focuses on common issues of theory.

Dr Luuk Huitink & Dr Saskia Peels

This work package is set in its entirety in the context of the new institution of Athenian democracy in the 5th century BCE and the anchoring practices discernible in this major transition.

Prof. Luuk de Ligt, Prof. Teun Tieleman & Prof. Miguel John Versluys

‘Hellenism’ both refers to the situation in the east after the death of Alexander and to the spread of Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean, including Rome. This work package is about anchoring cultural and religious innovations, primarily under the Hellenistic successor kingdoms.

Prof. Olivier Hekster, Prof. Miguel John Versluys & Prof. Antje Wessels

This work package studies the expansion of the Roman republic into the east and the transition to the Augustan period from the point of view of the attendant ‘cultural revolution’ and the need to anchor new forms of political authority.

Prof. Caroline Kroon, Prof. Onno van Nijf & Prof. Teun Tieleman

The Flavian dynasty inaugurated a ‘new age’ in need of legitimation, but could not anchor itself in the recent past.

Prof. Olivier Hekster & Prof. Onno van Nijf

This work package studies the transition constituted by the establishment of Christianity in the ancient world.

Prof. Maarten De Pourcq & Dr Bettina Reitz-Joosse

This work package deals with the use of the classical world as itself an anchoring device for later periods, an archive and storehouse to find ideas and devices by which later times may anchor innovations, but which may also function as a site of creative inspiration, not simply conservation.