Ancient Literacies
more than a century.^61 For our purposes, this library is important above all because it shows that a coherent collection could ...
two of Callimachus (nos. 8, 9), plus single rolls (so far as we know) of Cercidas, Hesiod, and Ibycus (nos. 10, 15, and 16). Pin ...
estimates that only some 5 percent of all literary manuscripts have sig- nificant marginal notes.^70 Of the Alcaeus papyri liste ...
to exist as a coherent and identifiable collection? We cannot answer these questions with any certainty, for there are too many ...
after that the fragments we now have were discarded. A history of this sort, which is suggested by the manuscripts we have, woul ...
APPENDIX: EVIDENCE FOR THE COMPOSITION OF GRENFELL AND HUNT’S ‘‘SECOND GREAT FIND’’ OF LITERARY PAPYRI I provide here references ...
8 .MP^3216 P. Oxy. 1362 Callimachus,Aitia P.Oxy. XI preface: ‘‘the lyric pieces.’’ Grenfell and Hunt seem to include this among ...
(Continued) Catalogue, MP^3 , and P.Oxy. Numbers Contents Reference to Evidence Showing that the Fragments Came from the Second ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank William Johnson, Holt N. Parker, and their col- leagues at the University of Cincinnati fo ...
Funghi, M. Serena, and Gabriella Messeri Savorelli. 1992a. ‘‘Lo ‘scriba di Pindaro’ e le biblioteche di Ossirinco.’’SCO42: 43 62 ...
Paschoud, Franc ̧ois. 2002.Histoire Auguste 5.1: Vies d’Aure ́lien et de Tacite. Paris. Pfeiffer, Homer F. 1931. ‘‘The Roman Lib ...
11 Bookshops in the Literary Culture of Rome Peter White —In grateful appreciation of Joseph O’Gara and Jack Cella Our knowledge ...
Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Martial, Quintilian, Pliny, Gellius, and Galen. As writers, they had engagements with the literary cul ...
Figure 11.1 Public Libraries in central Rome. 270 ...
market transactions. We rely on more or less plausible inferences from context, and not every context can be brought into sharp ...
One fact implicit in these arrangements is that books had a distinct commercial identity. They were not lumped with other commod ...
tific treatises by Aristotle and Galen, the poetry of Horace, Lucan, and Martial, Pliny’s speeches, and Quintilian’s opus on the ...
contemplates, which is to have the books made to order, also implies recourse to commercial sources. When he describes the level ...
and many other goods, is that they more or less required loitering. It took longer to inspect a stock of books than of cabbages, ...
they controlled information that the readers of books did not. Apart from knowing their own inventory, they knew something about ...
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