Ancient Literacies
BOOKSHOPS AS BUSINESSES Having traced the pattern of human traffic set up by Roman bookshops, let me return now to the fact that ...
saw outside.^29 But by far the most frequent complaint raised against booksellers was that they took insufficient care over the ...
Quintilian was far from being the only writer whom Roman booksell- ers attempted to recruit. Martial refers to marketing arrange ...
run-up to the civil war, Cicero in his villa on the coast was able to read acontiothat had been given at Rome by Mark Antony fou ...
it is certain that in other cases, the demand was satisfied with spurious compositions.^40 Few readers nowadays credit Vergil wi ...
he concluded that the manuscripts that carried them must have been fakes.^42 And from anecdotes in Aulus Gellius showing that su ...
the performance.^45 The recitation is an event characterized by radically asymmetrical inputs on the part of reciter and audienc ...
oddness of the inscription, wanted a look at the foreword. After reading the first two lines, he cast the text aside, declaring ...
than on the substance of a book acknowledges the reality that a book in a shop is, before anything else, a commodity. Neverthele ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENT I am grateful to the editors and to Robert Kaster for good advice about preparing this chapter for publication. B ...
Morel, J. P. 1987. ‘‘La topographie de l’artisanat et du commerce dans la Rome antique.’’ InL’Urbs: espace urbain et histoire (I ...
12 Literary Literacy in Roman Pompeii The Case of Vergil’sAeneid Kristina Milnor A couple of years ago, I came across a page in ...
on the ‘‘Latin’’ spoken by the ‘‘satin doll,’’ which, in Mercer’s original lyrics, did not actually signify the classical langua ...
Rome’s greatest poet; yet its appearance in the Pompeian graffiti seems to reduce it to simple words, scratches on a wall with n ...
invaluable, albeit not entirely transparent, set of data. From them, it is clear thatarma virumque cano, at the very least, was ...
distinction, scholars have found it difficult to define exactly what the wall texts meant to an ancient writer or reader, and ho ...
number of texts that play on the written materiality of the graffito text, perhaps most famously the couplet found scratched sev ...
We need not, however, prioritize the graffiti’s role as artifacts over their role as texts in an attempt to take their materiali ...
programma that supports a certain Gaius Cuspius Pansa for aedile (CIL 4.7129)—a notice that was painted over a number of others ...
from the elections of 70, but its neat placement below the second line of the advertisement for Paquius for Duovir (from the ele ...
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