Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in classical studies in the ways meaning is
generated through the medium of intertextuality namely how different texts of the same or
different authors communicate and interact with each other. Attention (although on a lesser
scale) has also been paid to the manner in which meaning is produced through interaction
between various parts of the same text or body of texts within the overall production of a
single author namely intratextuality. Taking off from the seminal volume on Intratextuality:
Greek and Roman Textual Relations edited by A. Sharrock H. Morales (Oxford 2000) which
largely sets the theoretical framework for such internal associations within classical texts
this collective volume brings together twenty-seven contributions written by an international
team of experts exploring the evolution of intratextuality from Late Republic to Late
Antiquity across a wide range of authors genres and historical periods. Of particular interest
are also the combined instances of intra- and intertextual poetics as well as the way in which
intratextuality in Latin literature draws on reading practices and critical methods already
theorized and operative in Greek antiquity.
