Classics and Media Theory
Pantelis Michelakis
Abstract
The aim of this volume is to introduce a largely neglected area of existing interactions between Greco-Roman antiquity and media theory. It addresses the question of why interactions in this area matter, and how they might be developed further. The volume seeks to promote more media attentiveness among scholars of Greece and Rome. It also aims to create more awareness of the presence of the classics in media theory. It foregrounds the persistency of Greco-Roman paradigms across the different strands of media theory. And it calls for a closer consideration of the conceptual underpinnings of sch ... More
The aim of this volume is to introduce a largely neglected area of existing interactions between Greco-Roman antiquity and media theory. It addresses the question of why interactions in this area matter, and how they might be developed further. The volume seeks to promote more media attentiveness among scholars of Greece and Rome. It also aims to create more awareness of the presence of the classics in media theory. It foregrounds the persistency of Greco-Roman paradigms across the different strands of media theory. And it calls for a closer consideration of the conceptual underpinnings of scholarly practices around the transformation of ancient Greece and Rome into ‘classical’ cultures.
Keywords:
medium as a concept,
media theory,
Greco-Roman antiquity,
the classical,
cultural transmission
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198846024 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: June 2020 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198846024.001.0001 |
