Title
Readers and reading culture in the high Roman Empire [electronic resource] : a study of elite communities / William A. Johnson.
ISBN
9780199721054 (electronic bk.)
019972105X (electronic bk.)
9780195176407
0195176405
Publication Details
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource ( x, 227 p.) : ill.
Call Number
Z1003.5.R57 J64 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
028.90937
Summary
In 'Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire', William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in 2nd century Rome, with a focus on specific communities witnessed in surviving literary sources and in the papyri. The result is a rich cultural history of individual reading communities.
Note
In 'Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire', William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in 2nd century Rome, with a focus on specific communities witnessed in surviving literary sources and in the papyri. The result is a rich cultural history of individual reading communities.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Series
Classical culture and society.
Reading as a sociocultural system
The pragmatics of reading
Pliny and the construction of reading communities
Pliny, Tacitus, and the Dialogus de oratoribus
Doctors and intellectuals : Galen's reading community
Aulus Gellius : the life of the litteratus
Fronto and Aurelius : contubernium and solitary reader
Lucian's insufficient intellectual
The papyri : scholars and reading communities in Graeco-Roman Egypt
Conclusion.
