(J.D.) MIKALSON The Essential Isocrates (Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture). Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. Pp. Xx + 234. $45.00. 9781477325520.

Abstract

vision itself produce the media effect of protrusions and recessions-the optical illusion of bulk and stuff-within his famous lines' (236). Similarly, Genevieve Lively (Chapter 10) considers Roman elegy's 'concerns with its own materiality and mediality' (239) through Wolfgang Ernst's media archaeology.The classical resonance of modern and contemporary art and its mediality, whether visual or textual, occupy the remaining chapters. Karin Harrasser (Chapter 7) expands on the subtle (subtextilis) haptics of Diego Velázquez's Las hilanderas (c. 1657) (with brief reference to Aristotle's Metaphysics) to explore the current state of tactility and 'teletactile technologies' (178-82) in recent media theory. Ulrich Meurer (Chapter 8) investigates the affinities of traditional and media archaeology through Canadian artist Henry Jesionka's Ancient Cinema (2012) and its collocation of numerous proto-cinematic media such as the slight variations of figures on shards of painted Roman glass found in the Croatian town of . Finally, Maria Oikonomou (Chapter 12) outlines the algorithmic decisions in the processes of migration, with Odysseus and his various refractions, including in George Hadjimichalis' Crossroad installation, as elucidative guides. As the first of its kind, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars interested in media with and in Graeco-Roman antiquity.