Ancient literacies [electronic resource] : the culture of reading in Greece and Rome / edited by William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Writing, reading, public and private "literacies" : functional literacy and democratic literacy in Greece / Rosalind Thomas
- Literacy or literacies in Rome? / Greg Woolf
- Reading, hearing, and looking at Ephesos / Barbara Burrell
- The anecdote : exploring the boundaries between oral and literate performance in the second sophistic / Simon Goldhill
- Situating literacy at Rome / Thomas Habinek
- The corrupted boy and the crowned poet : or, the material reality and the symbolic status of the literary book at Rome / Florence Dupont
- The impermament text in Catullus and other Roman poets / Joseph Farrell
- Books and reading latin poetry / Holt N. Parker
- Papyrological evidence for book collections and libraries in the Roman empire / George W. Houston
- Bookshops in the literary culture of Rome / Peter White
- Literary literacy in Roman Pompeii : the case of Vergil's Aeneid / Kristina Milnor
- Constructing elite reading communities in the high empire / William A. Johnson
- Literacy studies in classics : the last twenty years / Shirley Werner
- Why literacy matters, then and now / David R. Olson.