Ancient Literacies

oddness of the inscription, wanted a look at the foreword. After reading the first two lines, he cast the text aside, declaring ...

than on the substance of a book acknowledges the reality that a book in a shop is, before anything else, a commodity. Neverthele ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENT I am grateful to the editors and to Robert Kaster for good advice about preparing this chapter for publication. B ...

Morel, J. P. 1987. ‘‘La topographie de l’artisanat et du commerce dans la Rome antique.’’ InL’Urbs: espace urbain et histoire (I ...

12 Literary Literacy in Roman Pompeii The Case of Vergil’sAeneid Kristina Milnor A couple of years ago, I came across a page in ...

on the ‘‘Latin’’ spoken by the ‘‘satin doll,’’ which, in Mercer’s original lyrics, did not actually signify the classical langua ...

Rome’s greatest poet; yet its appearance in the Pompeian graffiti seems to reduce it to simple words, scratches on a wall with n ...

invaluable, albeit not entirely transparent, set of data. From them, it is clear thatarma virumque cano, at the very least, was ...

distinction, scholars have found it difficult to define exactly what the wall texts meant to an ancient writer or reader, and ho ...

number of texts that play on the written materiality of the graffito text, perhaps most famously the couplet found scratched sev ...

We need not, however, prioritize the graffiti’s role as artifacts over their role as texts in an attempt to take their materiali ...

programma that supports a certain Gaius Cuspius Pansa for aedile (CIL 4.7129)—a notice that was painted over a number of others ...

from the elections of 70, but its neat placement below the second line of the advertisement for Paquius for Duovir (from the ele ...

seen. As I noted above, the first words of Vergil’s text are written below the second line of the advertisement for Paquius for ...

writer is not actually attempting to communicate that he himself is singing about arms and the man, or even necessarily that he ...

outstrips citations from prose in ancient wall writing. Because so much ancient literature has been lost, it is of course possib ...

and the man’’). Matteo della Corte, among others, suggested that the screech owl was a bird sacred to the fullers and associated ...

hexameter is as a response to both paintings, one that expresses a prefer- ence for Ululitremulus and his profession over Aeneas ...

writing—and one that is not, it should be added, ever found in the elite Latin poets.^35 The appearance ofquisquis amat valeaton ...

Figure 12.3Painting of writing materials from Pompeii (MANN 4676). The act of literary quotation on Pompeian walls generally, I ...