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Autore |
Johnson William A (William Allen), <1956-> |
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Titolo |
Readers and reading culture in the high Roman Empire [[electronic resource] ] : a study of elite communities / / William A. Johnson |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-988420-X |
0-19-992671-9 |
1-282-56375-0 |
9786612563751 |
0-19-972105-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 p.) |
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Collana |
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Classical culture and society |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Books and reading - Rome |
Rome Intellectual life |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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