Abstract :
This narrative review outlines a polycentric future for Classical studies. It combines philological precision with computational tools, ethical governance, and public-facing teaching. The review is organized into seven sections. These move from corpus and tool transparency, to ethics, eco-sensory and affective interpretation, cognitive narratology and genre theory, and finally to reception, pedagogy, and civic engagement. The review synthesizes current research pipelines used in digital Classics. These link TEI and EpiDoc encodings, CTS URNs, and IIIF delivery systems with OCR and HTR correction work-flows. They also include multispectral and hyperspectral imaging, virtual unwrapping, stylometry, and constrained large language model collation. All methods are assessed using explicit uncertainty limits and reproducibility standards. Decolonizing practice is addressed through clear provenance tracking, consent registries, and transparent credit systems. The review re-frames race, ethnicity, and disability by emphasizing precise terminology, accessibility-focused design, and enforceable custodianship. It advances eco-materialist and multispecies approaches by connecting textual evidence with archaeological, environmental, and climatic data. Sensory history and affect are treated as structured, testable interpretive domains. The review draws on cognitive science to link narrative techniques such as focalization, metalepsis, and temporal structure with predictive processing, theory of mind, and appraisal theory. This alignment supports auditable interpretations across epic, lyric, historiography, philosophy, satire, and oratory. Reception is examined across film, comics, podcasts, and games. These are framed within universal design for learning, sustainability planning, and risk management. The review proposes clear standards for disclosure, auditing, and long-term maintenance. It concludes with an agenda focused on benchmark corpora, gold-standard collation graphs, model cards and open pedagogical studios. Together, these elements form a modular framework for a credible, equitable and durable discipline of Classics.

Keywords :
Classical Philology, Digital Humanities, Computational Philology, Textual Criticism, Papyrology, Epigraphy, Multispectral Imaging, Stylometry, Cognitive Narratology, Reception Studies, Public Humanities.

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