Ancient literacies : the culture of reading in Greece and Rome

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Ancient literacies : the culture of reading in Greece and Rome

edited by William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker

Oxford University Press, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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  • 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
  • The anecdote : exploring the boundaries between oral and literate performance in the second sophistic / Simon Goldhill
  • Situating literacy at Rome / Thomas Habinek
  • The corrupted boy and the crowned poet : or, the material reality and the symbolic status of the literary book at Rome / Florence Dupont
  • The 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

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