Ancient Literacies

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Ancient Literacies The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome EDITED BY William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker 1 2009 ...

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Acknowledgments On April 28–29, 2006, the University of Cincinnati convened a Semple Symposium under the rubric ‘‘Constructing ‘ ...

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Contents List of Illustrations,ix Abbreviations,xi List of Contributors,xiii 1 Introduction, 3 William A. Johnson PART I: SITUAT ...

PART III: INSTITUTIONS AND COMMUNITIES 10 Papyrological Evidence for Book Collections and Libraries in the Roman Empire, 233 Geo ...

Illustrations Figure 2.1: Athenian Agora XXV,Ostraka, no.89 Figure 2.2: Athenian Agora XXV,Ostraka, no.1097 Figure 2.3: Athenia ...

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Abbreviations ATL: Meritt, B.D., H. D. Wade-Gery, and M. L. McGregor. 1939–1953.The Athenian Tribute Lists. Princeton. CIL: Corp ...

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Contributors Trained at New York University and at Harvard,BARBARABURRELLhas dug at sites across the Mediterranean, including Sp ...

THOMASHABINEK, Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California, is a specialist in Latin literature and Roman cul ...

HOLTN. PARKERis Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He has publish ...

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1 Introduction William A. Johnson A previous generation of scholars made ancient Greece a point of central focus in arguments co ...