Ancient Literacies

instances). It may well be true that Books 1 and 2 of Vergil’s epic poem were the most popular in early imperial Rome, but I wou ...

There is, however, one noticeable unifying theme amongst the Pom- peian graffiti quotations from theAeneid—again, setting aside ...

vividly spoken moment in Vergil’s text, a point that is emphasized by the fact that the line contains both a vocative and an imp ...

verbs or other deictic words, the later educational treatises understand it primarily as an example of a particular kind of dire ...

genius...Mystiis communi suo salute(m) vidisti quo Turnum aequoribus eibat in arm[is—that is, ‘‘Primegenius... [gives] salutatio ...

context (the palaestra, where wrestling matches and other athletic con- tests took place), which may explain why it is quoted he ...

location: 6. 7. 20 1, probably in the peristyle (CIL4.1281 and 1283 came from there, although 1282 is simply listed as being fro ...

12.CIL4.9131: FULLONES ULULAMQUE CANO, NON ARMA VIRUMQ[UE size: 29.5 cm long location: 9. 13. 5, on the outside wall to the left ...

however, there is not enough in these inscriptions to connect them specifically with Vergil’s text. 1.192–3: nec prius absistit, ...

2.1 Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebant 25.CIL4.1672 CONTICUER(E) size: 7. 5 cm long2.5 cm high location: 7. 2. 35, on one ...

37.CIL4.8247 CONTIQ(UERE) size: 4 cm long location: 1. 10. 2, in the ‘‘Thermopolium Primae,’’ where there are many inscriptions ...

5.389: Entelle, heroum quondam fortissime frustra 44.CIL4.8379: ENTELLE HEROUM size: 11.1 cm long0.5 6.6 cm high location: 1. 1 ...

51.CIL4.8292: VIDISTIQUO TURNUS EQUO Q[ size: 20 cm long location: 1. 10. 4, among the tituli to the right of the door 9.404: Tu ...

location: 9. 2. 26, in the portico that is before the garden, on the second pillar from the right 61.CIL4.9987: D]IC MIHI / DAM] ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Alfo ̈ldy, G. 1991. ‘‘Augustus und die Inschriften: Tradition und Innovation: Die Geburt der imperialen Epigraphik. ...

Humphrey, J. H., ed. 1991.Literacy in the Roman World. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series 3. Ann Arbor. Kaster, ...

13 Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire William A. Johnson A reading community in Antonine Rome is describe ...

been able to pull out of the pocket of his toga the twenty-fifth book of Varro’santiquitates rerum humanarum, whose authority as ...

depicted in Gellius, and so the whole of the scene has a richly represen- tative feeling for Gellius’s readers.^2 Gellius comes ...

Gellius’s reading community is, then, exclusionary in some special ways. The group is not the elite-at-large, but a self-selecte ...