Ancient Literacies

simple case will show how they can overlap. The sophist Favorinus, since Maud Gleason’s Making Men, has become a familiar figure ...

chria).^23 Interestingly, he concludes by pointing out that Latin rhetoricians do not match up to their Greek counterparts: ‘‘Ce ...

the title of sophist, and one or two he doesn’t. Many of these entries are very brief and are little more than markers of identi ...

‘‘What about your speech?’’ asked Herodes. ‘‘How were you educated, and by whom? For you do not seem to me to be one of the uned ...

sophisticated: even a Plutarch, it is suggested, accustomed to shout ‘‘No! Error!,’’ is like a rube before this paragon of unedu ...

Greekness. The uncertain degree to which such an observation depends on contemporary cultural understandings or illuminates mode ...

prevent the dissolution of the drinkers through drink and bring the right social qualities of relaxed friendship—‘‘if people eng ...

increasing need to use such fragments to bolster against ruin. A dictionary of cultural literacy. It is a pattern that Classics ...

Greek culture in which the anecdote seems to come into its own as a form, at least to judge from the literary evidence, our only ...

, eds. 2002.TheChreia and Ancient Rhetoric. Vol. 2:Classroom Exercises. Atlanta. Jones, C. 1971.Plutarch and Rome. Oxford. Kaste ...

6 Situating Literacy at Rome Thomas Habinek In 1997 Emmanuelle Valette-Cagnac published her Paris dissertation on the anthropolo ...

vocalizing in the transmittal of turns of phrase, metrical patterns, sound effects, and the like. More generally, Wachter’s pape ...

WRITING, PROPERTY, AND THE MATERIALIZATION OF SOCIAL RELATIONS If we consider the spread of writing and reading practices at R ...

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 ...