Ancient Literacies

We can go further.^4 ‘‘Burning the midnight oil’’ remains a contempor- ary expression, but in second-century Rome thetoposof luc ...

Because themagisteris an informing figure in Gellius, let us begin with a scene from his school days. A passage at the front of ...

groupto intense scrutiny, repeatedly and interactively, is not easy to parallel in modern society.^8 That this habit of turning ...

simultaneously with ‘‘Sallust’’ and with one’s contemporaries. Thecom- binationof inquiry and discussion is what makes the text ...

The question I wish to pose is not, ‘‘Did the Romans read silently?’’—of course they did^12 —but how theyconstructedthe signific ...

certain tendencies in Antonine society, literature, taken as a whole, seems to function in the following ways: .as an exclusiona ...

Johnson, William A. 2000. ‘‘Towards a Sociology of Reading in Classical Antiquity.’’AJPh121: 593 627. . 2002. ‘‘Reading Cultures ...

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14 Literacy Studies in Classics The Last Twenty Years Shirley Werner Twenty-five years ago a distinguished historian could write ...

d’Athenes al’e ́poque classique, examined the uses of public and private writing in Athens. New theoretical perspectives have al ...

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alphabet within the context of the dialect of Homeric language (cf. Ruijgh 1997). Woodard 1997,Greek Writing from Knossos to Hom ...

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our understanding of physical aspects of the ancient Greek book are Turner 1980 (1st ed. 1968),Greek Papyri, and Turner and Pars ...

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Jacob 1996,Le pouvoir des bibliothe`ques: la me ́moire des livres en Occident; Gratien and Hanoun 1997,Lire l’e ́crit: textes, a ...

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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careful not to mention’’ literacy—minimally defined in terms of ‘‘the distinct abilities to read, write and count’’—he discusses ...