Documentality : new approaches to written documents in imperial life and literature / edited by Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne, Scott Jared DiGiulio, and Inger Neeltje Irene Kuin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DiGiulio, Scott Jared, editor.

Kuin, Inger N. I., editor.

Arthur-Montagne, Jacqueline, editor.

Series:

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; v.132

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin prose literature.

Documentation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

This volume unites scholars of classical epigraphy, papyrology, and literature to analyze the documentary habit in the Roman Empire. Texts like inscriptions and letters have gained importance in classical scholarship, but there has been limited analysis of the imaginative and sociological dimensions of the ancient document. Individual chapters investigate the definition of the document in ancient thought, and how modern understandings of documentation may (mis)shape scholarly approaches to documentary sources in antiquity. Contributors reexamine familiar categories of ancient documents through the lenses of perception and function, and reveal where the modern understanding of the document departs from ancient conceptions of documentation. The boundary between literary genres and documentary genres of writing appears more fluid than prior scholarship had allowed. Compared to modern audiences, inhabitants of the Roman Empire used a more diverse range of both non-textual and textual forms of documentation, and they did so with a more active, questioning attitude. The interdisciplinary approach to the "mentality" of documentation in this volume advances beyond standard discussions of form, genre, and style to revisit the document through the eyes of Greco-Roman readers and viewers.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Contents

Abbreviations

List of Figures

Introduction

Part I: Approaches to Ancient Documentality

Documenting Identity in the Early Roman Empire

Copying the Canon: Imperial School Texts as Documentary Traces

Documenting Wonderland: Lucian's True Stories and the Documentary imaginaire

Part II: Documentary Communities and Landscapes

Cities Full of Words: Illiteracy and Epigraphy in Lucian of Samosata

Documenting the oikoumenê: What "Documents" Supported the Description of the Inhabited World in the Hellenistic and Early Imperial Periods?

A Community Set in Stone? Monumental Decrees as Instruments of Greek Interactions

Part III: Between Documents and Literature

Dead Letters, Documentality, and the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius

The Relationship between Documents and Literature in Late Antiquity: The Case of the Petition, between Document, Adaptation and Literary Creation

When the Letter Speaks Up: Living and Lifeless Letters

Epilogue

The Ancient Historian and His Documents: Reader, Interpreter, and/or Author?

List of Contributors

Index Locorum

Index Rerum.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Arthur-Montagne, Jacqueline Documentality

ISBN:

3-11-079191-9

OCLC:

1348484614