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1 online resource (xv, 430 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
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 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 Virgil'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 Epilogue 15. Why Literacy Matters, Then and Now (May 30, 2006) Index locorum General Index. |
| 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 -- Anecdote : exploring the boundaries between oral and literate performance in the second sophistic / Simon Goldhill -- Situating literacy at Rome / Thomas Habinek -- Corrupted boy and the crowned poet : or, the material reality and the symbolic status of the literary book at Rome / Florence Dupont -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Transmission of texts -- Greece.
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Transmission of texts. |
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Greece. |
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Transmission of texts -- Rome.
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Books and reading -- Greece.
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Books and reading. |
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Books and reading -- Rome.
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Literacy -- Greece.
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Literacy. |
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Literacy -- Rome.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, William A. (William Allen), 1956-
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Parker, Holt N.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ancient literacies. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780195340150 0195340159 (DLC) 2008020329 (OCoLC)228631654 |
| ISBN |
9780199712861 (electronic book) |
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0199712867 (electronic book) |
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128193092X |
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9781281930927 |
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9780199793983 |
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0199793980 |
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9780195340150 |
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0195340159 |
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9786611930929 |
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