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

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 430 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.2
• Soggetto topico: Transmission of texts - Greece; Transmission of texts - Rome; Books and reading - Greece; Books and reading - Rome; Literacy - Greece; Literacy - Rome
• Altri autori: JohnsonWilliam A <1956-> (William Allen) ParkerHolt N
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Ancient literacies
• ISBN: 0-19-988766-7; 0-19-026128-5; 0-19-971286-7; 9786611930929; 1-281-93092-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910796456803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II