Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire

A Study of Elite Communities

AvWilliam A. Johnson

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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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 second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny's teacher, Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves on to explore elite reading during the era of the Antonines, including the medical community around Galen, the philological community around Gellius and Fronto (with a look at the curious reading habits of Fronto's pupil Marcus Aurelius), and the intellectual communities lampooned by the satirist Lucian. Along the way, evidence from the papyri is deployed to help to understand better and more concretely both the mechanics of reading, and the social interactions that surrounded the ancient book. The result is a rich cultural history of individual reading communities that differentiate themselves in interesting ways even while in aggregate showing a coherent reading culture with fascinating similarities and contrasts to the reading culture of today.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-07-12
Mått:152 x 231 x 15 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Classical Culture and Society
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780199926718

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William A. Johnson is Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Duke University.

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a fascinating and useful study

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Abbreviations ; 1. Reading as a Sociocultural System ; 2. The Pragmatics of Reading ; 3. Pliny and the Construction of Literary Culture ; 4. Pliny, Tacitus, and the Dialogus de oratoribus ; 5. Doctors and Intellectuals: Galen's Reading Community ; 6. Aulus Gellius: The Life of the Litteratus ; 7. Fronto and Aurelius: Contubernium and Solitary Reader ; 8. Lucian's Insufficient Intellectual ; 9. The Papyri: Scholars and Reading Communities in Graeco-Roman Egypt ; 10. Conclusion ; References ; Index

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