Classics and Media Theory

Introducing a largely neglected area of existing interactions between Greco-Roman antiquity and media theory, this volume addresses the question of why interactions in this area matter and how they might be developed further, and aims not only to promote awareness of the presence of the classics in media theory but also to encourage more media attentiveness among scholars of Greece and Rome. It foregrounds the persistency of Greco-Roman paradigms across the different strands of media theory and calls for a closer consideration of the conceptual underpinnings of the cultural (and scholarly) practices around the transformation of ancient Greece and Rome into ‘classics.