<p>This article explores the possibilities offered by digital tools such as textual analysis software and databases for Classical Reception Studies scholars. We argue that the field, and more generally, Classical Studies, needs to move beyond the case-study dynamics that have so far largely dominated these subject areas. This paper advocates for the advantages of using broader evidence and big corpora. This approach allows us to achieve more far-reaching conclusions. Our two examples examine (a) the processing of a corpus of early twentieth-century Spanish newspapers using a textual corpus manager and text analysis software called Sketch Engine, and (b) the work on the ‘Marginalia Paratexta’ database of paratexts and metatexts of classical reception in contemporary mass culture, currently in development by the ‘Marginalia Classica’ research team.</p>