Introduction

This introduction focuses on the reception of Antonio Gramsci's understanding of hegemony in historical and classical studies, from 1937 until the present day. It offers a biographical sketch that situates Gramsci's life, education, and political engagement in their context and it then offers an overview of the reception of Gramsci's thought, relating it to the editorial history of the Prison Notebooks. Special attention is given to work more closely related to classical studies, from the Seminario di Antichistica of the Istituto Gramsci to more recent usages of Gramscian categories and insights in the studies of Robert Morstein-Marx and Joy Connolly.