Ancient Literacies
form and, equally, no particular reason to think that preserving a record of a society’s past is the only function to which writ ...
that record at least some use of the Latin language or a close dialectal variant. The table shows uses of inscriptions roughly c ...
Despite the superficiality of the survey, certain trends may be ob- served. In terms of movement over time, we note the drop in ...
With respect to the latter phenomenon, we may recall Lotte Hedeager’s argument, advanced in her discussion of status markers in ...
WRITING, RITUALIZATION, AND MASTERY The use of writing to assert status leads to a second line of inquiry, which considers wri ...
as an extension of the master’s power or in this case credit, but they do so through the medium of writing. As it turns out, wri ...
InThe World of Roman Song, I argue that mastery of the ritualization of speechintosongisanimportantmeans through whichtheagencyo ...
monument (a capacity shared with spoken language, too, we should recall) and its own status as ritualized practice that account ...
Yet if embodied mimetic practices merit consideration on their own terms, nonetheless attention to them can broaden and enrich o ...
Certain phrases occur on thetabulaewith sufficient frequency to appear formulaic: for example,circus plenus(‘‘the circus is full ...
Self-referentiality about the playfulness of writing provides an additional link between the board games and the manuscripts’ wo ...
Figure 6.1Tabula Iliaca Capitolina (MDAI(R) vi (1891) pl. v). 128 ...
words at the bottom of the depicted ‘‘altar’’ constitute a palindrome: iereiaierei. Either way they read ‘‘the priestess to the ...
låðôc ìbí ŒÆŁÆæc ôå ðåæd ôæßôïí qìÆæ KïFóÆ ehäØüò Œ’åYÅ;ºåðôc äb ŒÆd ås ìܺ’KæåıŁcò píåıìÆôßÅ·ðÆåßøí äb ŒÆd Iìâºåßfi ÅóØ ŒåæÆßÆØ ...
(Up to the half moon, signs of the half tell up to mid month, and in turn from mid month To the waning half. Next comes the four ...
Ennius himself composed an acrostic on his name: QVINTVS ENNIVS FECIT (‘‘Quintus Ennius wrote this,’’ Cic.Div. 2.111–2). Also re ...
Although the acrostic requires slight emendations in both parts (substi- tution of a verb beginning with the lettervin verse 7, ...
Read across, the chart gives the forms ofalbusin the six cases of the Latin language (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ...
One last instance of visual/verbal interplay invites yet another set of reflections on the materiality of writing and the impact ...
differently. These tours de force are further instances of the propensity among the Romans to intensify the constraints upon wri ...
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