Ancient Literacies
from Catullus in two senses, both as something that belongs to Hortalus, and as something that belongs to Callimachus. Third, th ...
which introduces a translation of theComa Berenices—a consummately bookish poem in every sense. By contrast, Catullus implies in ...
passages to the idea of poetic reputation, and is used to express the idea that a poem (or poet) is or is not likely to last. He ...
of the singing page, along with singing and writing as sharply defined alternatives, are themes that future generations of Roman ...
Tityrus, it is not clear whether the occasion was his first; the really important point, however, is that he was not writing but ...
than Catullus’s address to Nepos, and the elaborate priamel of occupations that occupies the majority of the poem’s lines. The i ...
the poet’s reputation. The relationship represented here is clearly asym- metrical, with the patron having a key advantage over ...
perhaps normally, in fact as well sets the tone for all future stages. For all these reasons, the image of the book serves as a ...
Otto, August. 1971.Die sprichwo ̈rter und sprichwo ̈rtlichen Redensarten der Ro ̈mer. Hildesheim. Perry, B. E. 1936.Studies in t ...
9 Books and Reading Latin Poetry Holt N. Parker When Horace wrote, me Colchus et qui dissimulat metum Marsae cohortis Dacus et u ...
Augustan periods, ‘‘The author’s texts were intended primarily for a relatively small circle of hearers at recitations.’’^3 That ...
many and detailed descriptions the Romans have left us of what William Johnson has called ‘‘reading events’’ (2000, 602) is a fa ...
The Romans even as late as the first centuryA.D. still felt that performance was the real thing and a written text ... was not i ...
writing, they were produced for, and experienced primarily in, oral delivery and performance a format that much more accurately ...
formative’’ culture, although exactly how and exactly what is meant by these terms are never clearly stated.^13 Here we need a w ...
Although the view that the Romans were constrained to read aloud is untenable, it is, as the quotations above show, the most imp ...
What Do You Mean ‘‘Oral’’? The second presupposition is that Rome was an oral culture, at least in some sense. Wefirstneed to de ...
has been misunderstood so often, it may be necessary to repeat that performance is not the same as an oral culture. Though liter ...
Dr. Johnson said, ‘‘Bolder words and more timorous meaning, I think never were brought together.’’ Boswell: Life of Johnson, ed. ...
Thanks to Valette-Cagnac, Dupont, Johnson, and others, a more balanced picture has emerged, and we can begin from two obvious fa ...
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