Readers and reading culture in the high Roman Empire [[electronic resource] ] : a study of elite communities / / William A. Johnson

• Autore: Johnson William A (William Allen), <1956->
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 028/.90937
• Soggetto topico: Books and reading - Rome
• Soggetto geografico: Rome Intellectual life
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Readers and reading culture in the high Roman Empire
• ISBN: 0-19-988420-X; 0-19-992671-9; 1-282-56375-0; 9786612563751; 0-19-972105-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996210650903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Classical culture and society.