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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466437703321

Titolo

Ancient literacies [[electronic resource] ] : the culture of reading in Greece and Rome / / edited by William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-19-988766-7

0-19-026128-5

0-19-971286-7

9786611930929

1-281-93092-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 430 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnsonWilliam A <1956-> (William Allen)

ParkerHolt N

Disciplina

302.2

Soggetti

Transmission of texts - Greece

Transmission of texts - Rome

Books and reading - Greece

Books and reading - Rome

Literacy - Greece

Literacy - Rome

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I: Situating Literacies; 2 Writing, Reading, Public and Private ''Literacies'': Functional Literacy and Democratic Literacy in Greece; 3 Literacy or Literacies in Rome?; 4 Reading, Hearing, and Looking at Ephesos; 5 The Anecdote: Exploring the Boundaries between Oral and Literate Performance in the Second Sophistic; 6 Situating Literacy at Rome; 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 Rome8 The Impermanent Text in Catullus and Other Roman Poets; 9 Books and



Reading Latin Poetry; Part III: Institutions and Communities; 10 Papyrological Evidence for Book Collections and Libraries in the Roman Empire; 11 Bookshops in the Literary Culture of Rome; 12 Literary Literacy in Roman Pompeii: The Case of Vergil's Aeneid; 13 Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire; Part IV: Bibliographical Essay; 14 Literacy Studies in Classics: The Last Twenty Years

Part V: Epilogue15 Why Literacy Matters, Then and Now; Index Locorum; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

List of Illustrations  Abbreviations  List of Contributors  1. Introduction  PART I Situating Literacies   2. Writing, Reading, Public and Private ""Literacies"": Functional Literacy and Democratic Literacy in Greece  3. Literacy or Literacies in Ancient Rome?  4. Reading, Hearing, and Looking at Ephesos  5. The Anecdote: Exploring the Boundaries between Oral and Literate Performance in the Second Sophistic  6. Situating Literacy at Rome  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  8. The Impe