Ancient Literacies

(Continued) Catalogue, MP^3 , and P.Oxy. Numbers Contents Reference to Evidence Showing that the Fragments Came from the Second ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank William Johnson, Holt N. Parker, and their col- leagues at the University of Cincinnati fo ...

Funghi, M. Serena, and Gabriella Messeri Savorelli. 1992a. ‘‘Lo ‘scriba di Pindaro’ e le biblioteche di Ossirinco.’’SCO42: 43 62 ...

Paschoud, Franc ̧ois. 2002.Histoire Auguste 5.1: Vies d’Aure ́lien et de Tacite. Paris. Pfeiffer, Homer F. 1931. ‘‘The Roman Lib ...

11 Bookshops in the Literary Culture of Rome Peter White —In grateful appreciation of Joseph O’Gara and Jack Cella Our knowledge ...

Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Martial, Quintilian, Pliny, Gellius, and Galen. As writers, they had engagements with the literary cul ...

Figure 11.1 Public Libraries in central Rome. 270 ...

market transactions. We rely on more or less plausible inferences from context, and not every context can be brought into sharp ...

One fact implicit in these arrangements is that books had a distinct commercial identity. They were not lumped with other commod ...

tific treatises by Aristotle and Galen, the poetry of Horace, Lucan, and Martial, Pliny’s speeches, and Quintilian’s opus on the ...

contemplates, which is to have the books made to order, also implies recourse to commercial sources. When he describes the level ...

and many other goods, is that they more or less required loitering. It took longer to inspect a stock of books than of cabbages, ...

they controlled information that the readers of books did not. Apart from knowing their own inventory, they knew something about ...

BOOKSHOPS AS BUSINESSES Having traced the pattern of human traffic set up by Roman bookshops, let me return now to the fact that ...

saw outside.^29 But by far the most frequent complaint raised against booksellers was that they took insufficient care over the ...

Quintilian was far from being the only writer whom Roman booksell- ers attempted to recruit. Martial refers to marketing arrange ...

run-up to the civil war, Cicero in his villa on the coast was able to read acontiothat had been given at Rome by Mark Antony fou ...

it is certain that in other cases, the demand was satisfied with spurious compositions.^40 Few readers nowadays credit Vergil wi ...

he concluded that the manuscripts that carried them must have been fakes.^42 And from anecdotes in Aulus Gellius showing that su ...

the performance.^45 The recitation is an event characterized by radically asymmetrical inputs on the part of reciter and audienc ...