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Title The materiality of text : placement, perception, and presence of inscribed texts in classical antiquity / edited by Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic, Edmund Thomas.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy ; volume 11
Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy ; v. 11.
Note "Written by an international cast of experts, The Materiality of Text showcases a wide range of innovative methodologies from ancient history, literary studies, epigraphy, and art history and provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physicality of writing in antiquity. The contributions focus on epigraphic texts in order to gauge questions of their placement, presence, and perception: starting with an analysis of the forms of writing and its perception as an act of physical and cultural intervention, the volume moves on to consider the texts' ubiquity and strategic positioning within epigraphic, literary, and architectural spaces. The contributors rethink modern assumptions about the processes of writing and reading and establish novel ways of thinking about the physical forms of ancient texts"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Section B Literary Spaces: The Materiality of Text in Greek and Roman LiteratureChapter 6 The Authority of Archaic Greek Epigram; Chapter 7 Writing, Women's Silent Speech; Chapter 8 Hard Verses and Soft Books: The Materials of Elegy; Section C Architectural Spaces; Chapter 9 The Power of the Absent Text: Dedicatory Inscriptions on Greek Sacred Architecture and Altars; Chapter 10 Re-Appraising the Value of Same-Text Relationships; a Study of 'Duplicate' Inscriptions in the Monumental Landscape at Aphrodisias
Chapter 11 Layers of Urban Life: A Contextual Analysis of Inscriptions in the Public Space of PompeiiChapter 12 Damnatio Memoriae Inscribed: The Materiality of Cultural Repression; Chapter 13 Inscriptions between Text and Texture: Inscribed Monuments in Public Spaces -- A Case Study at Late Antique Ostia; Chapter 14 Framing Late Antique Texts as Monuments: The Tabula Ansata between Sculpture and Mosaic; Index Locorum; Index Nominum; Index Rerum
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Subject Inscriptions, Greek.
Inscriptions, Greek.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Petrovic, Andrej, editor.
Petrovic, Ivana, editor.
Thomas, Edmund (Edmund V.), editor.
Other Form: Print version: Materiality of text. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004375505 (DLC) 2018032005
ISBN 9789004379435 (electronic book)
9004379436 (electronic book)
9789004375505