Abstract
This introduction outlines the meaning of ‘intermediality’, both with respect to the prefix ‘inter’, which does not only hint at interactions ‘between’ media but also at commentary about and phenomena within media, as well as to the concept of ‘media(lity)’. In so doing, it explains and critiques, for those new to intermedial analysis, the major schools of thought which define this field, drawing on Rajewsky, Elleström, Bruhn, Wolf, and their peers. It also demonstrates why intermediality is a useful framework for Classics research using Roman comedy as a case study, and contains chapter summaries for the special issue as a whole.
About the authors
Martin T. Dinter is Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at King’s College London. He has recently edited Reading Roman Declamation: The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian (De Gruyter 2015), as well as Reading Roman Declamation: Calpurnius Flaccus (De Gruyter 2017), and The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy (2019). He has also published extensively on intermediality, especially with relation to Latin epic and elegy. His upcoming publications include a monograph on Cato the Elder and his reception, as well as two edited volumes on cultural memory in Ancient Rome.
Bettina Reitz-Joosse is Associate Professor in Latin Literature at Groningen University. She has recently edited The Codex Fori Mussolini: A Latin Text of Italian Fascism (Bloomsbury 2016) and authored numerous articles, including “Land at Peace and Sea at War: Landscape and the Memory of Actium in Greek Epigram and Propertius’ Elegies” (Brill 2016) and “Tantae Molis Erat: On Valuing Imperial Architecture” (Brill 2012). Her upcoming publications include an edited book on Fascist Latin Literature and a monograph entitled Building in Words: The Process of Construction in Latin Literature (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
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