Ancient Literacies
The evidence from Pliny and others is overwhelming: literature is, and is meant to be, disseminated in books.^130 Pliny in writi ...
IV. MONUMENTUM AERE PERENNIUS We can now finally turn to the poets. Here is what Catullus wrote in a book (36.1): ‘‘Annales Volu ...
We can now answer our question: Did the republican and Augustan poets write with readers or listeners in mind? The evidence is o ...
So Catullus assumed he would be read, and in books, by people far away in time: Libelli. .. quod.../plus uno maneat perenne saec ...
the votes of the fickle public with the expense of dinners and the gift of worn out clothes. I do not for I am the disciple and ...
people who had read Propertius’s first book were not all friends of the poet.^147 They did not attend his readings because they ...
nomenque erit indelebile nostrum, quaque patet domitis Romana potentia terris, ore legar populi, perque omnia saecula fama, siqu ...
Ovid in exile shows one of the many problems with any theory that the only real poetry for the Romans was performed poetry. If s ...
to their status aswrittentexts (e.g., Cat. 14, 50). Even theSermones (‘‘Conversations’’) are written for readers.^157 Accordingl ...
BIBLIOGRAPHY Achtemeier, Paul J. 1990. ‘‘Omne Verbum Sonat: The New Testament and the Oral Environment of Late Western Antiquity ...
Darnton, Robert. 1990. ‘‘First Steps Toward a History of Reading.’’ InThe Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History, 1 ...
Holzberg, Nicklas. 2001.Die ro ̈mische Liebeselegie: Eine Einfu ̈hrung. 2nd ed. Darmstadt. Horsfall, Nicholas. 1989. ‘‘‘The Uses ...
Saenger, Paul. 1982. ‘‘Silent Reading: Its Impact on Late Medieval Script and Society.’’Viator13: 367 414. Salles, Catherine. 19 ...
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10 Papyrological Evidence for Book Collections and Libraries in the Roman Empire George W. Houston Working primarily with litera ...
number of other limitations as well.^4 We will deal primarily with two kinds of evidence: first, lists of books that appear in p ...
It begins in line 1 withSymposium, then in line 2 tells us ‘‘dialogues,’’ followed by the number kappa, or 20. There follow 20 l ...
there is aparagraphus—a horizontal line indicating a break—followed by works of Xenophon and then, after a second break indicate ...
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