Ancient literacies: the culture of reading in Greece and Rome

This volume is intended as a forum in which selected leading scholars rethinkfrom the ground up how students of classical antiquity might best approach the question of literacy in the past, and how that investigation might materially intersect with changes in the way that literacy is now viewed in other disciplines. INDICE: 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 andthe 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-979398-3
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 448
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés