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Readers and reading culture in the high Roman Empire : a study of elite communities / William A. Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, William A. (William Allen), 1956-
- Series:
- Classical culture and society.
- Classical culture and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading--Rome.
- Books and reading.
- Rome--Intellectual life.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 'Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire', William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in 2nd century Rome, with a focus on specific communities witnessed in surviving literary sources and in the papyri. The result is a rich cultural history of individual reading communities.
- Contents:
- Reading as a sociocultural system
- The pragmatics of reading
- Pliny and the construction of literary culture
- Pliny, Tacitus, and the Dialogus de oratoribus
- Doctors and intellectuals : Galen's reading community
- Aulus Gellius : the life of the litteratus
- Fronto and Aurelius : contubernium and solitary reader
- Lucian's insufficient intellectual
- The papyri : scholars and reading communities in Graeco-Roman Egypt
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-988420-X
- 0-19-992671-9
- 1-282-56375-0
- 9786612563751
- 0-19-972105-X
- OCLC:
- 638328917
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