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Ancient literacies : the culture of reading in Greece and Rome / edited by William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker.
Van Pelt Library Z1003.5.G8 A53 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transmission of texts--Greece.
- Transmission of texts.
- Literacy.
- Books and reading.
- Greece.
- Transmission of texts--Rome.
- Books and reading--Greece.
- Books and reading--Rome.
- Literacy--Greece.
- Literacy--Rome.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 430 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction / William A. Johnson 3
- Part I Situating Literacies
- 2 Writing, Reading, Public and Private "Literacies": Functional Literacy and Democratic Literacy in Greece / Rosalind Thomas 13
- 3 Literacy or Literacies in Rome? / Greg Woolf 46
- 4 Reading, Hearing, and Looking at Ephesos / Barbara Burrell 69
- 5 The Anecdote: Exploring the Boundaries between Oral and Literate Performance in the Second Sophistic / Simon Goldhill 96
- 6 Situating Literacy at Rome / Thomas Habinek 114
- Part II Books and Texts
- 7 The Corrupted Boy and the Crowned Poet: or, The Material Reality and the Symbolic Status of the Literary Book at Rome / Florence Dupont 143
- 8 The Impermanent Text in Catullus and Other Roman Poets / Joseph Farrell 164
- 9 Books and Reading Latin Poetry / Holt N. Parker 186
- Part III Institutions and Communities
- 10 Papyrological Evidence for Book Collections and Libraries in the Roman Empire / George W. Houston 233
- 11 Bookshops in the Literary Culture of Rome / Peter White 268
- 12 Literary Literacy in Roman Pompeii: The Case of Vergil's Aeneid / Kristina Milnor 288
- 13 Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire / William A. Johnson 320
- Part IV Bibliographical Essay
- 14 Literacy Studies in Classics: The Last Twenty Years / Shirley Werner 333
- Part V Epilogue
- 15 Why Literacy Matters, Then and Now / David R. Olson 385.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780195340150
- 0195340159
- OCLC:
- 228631654
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