Ancient Literacies

on oral performance, 204n67, 219, 224
on poet, 189n 6
on reading, 201n52, 210
on recitation, 203n 59
Quintilian
and bookseller, 278
onchria,104 105
on listening, 195
on lucubration, 324
on performance of poetry, 213n 109
on poetry, 298 299
on reading, 195, 213n 111
unauthorized works of, 278, 279
quotation, 8, 100, 103 104, 394, 398n2,
401
assertoric/illocutionary force of lost, 394,
396
as central to writing and reading, 398
as closed, 395
as metarepresentational, 394
and pure thought, 396 397
recognition of, 395 398
reliance on, 385

reader response theory, 399
reading, 350, 385 386, 401
alone, 7, 187 188, 194, 323 324, 328
aloud, 190 191, 190n12, 191n13,
194 195, 201 202, 201n52, 204n69,
214, 214n116, 337, 338
cultural aspects of, 9, 123, 337 339,
400
focus on act of, 338 339
in group, 7, 324 328
and interpretation of musical ‘‘score,’’ 193,
193 n 21
and listening, 338
and oral performance, 114
and performance, 187n 2
public and private, 194
and quoted expression, 394, 398
and relationship to writing, 114, 123,
338 339
in Rome, 186 188, 189n8, 195 198, 211,
211 n101, 212
silently, 337, 338
social aspects of, 9, 324 328
and speaking, 114
and spread of literacy, 114n 3
types of, 192
uses for, 4
ways of, 399 400
reading community, inAttic Nights
(Gellius), 7, 320 323, 327, 329
reading competencies, 8, 400

‘‘reading culture,’’ 321

reading events, 7, 188

sociocultural contexts of, 3 4, 7, 321,

324 327

‘‘reading system,’’ 321

reception theory, 69

recitation, 191, 195, 203n59, 218n137,

282 283

book used in addition to, 208, 211,

211 n96, 213, 224n 156

and difference from theatrical

performance, 203

of Ennius’s works, 210n95, 211, 211n 96

for entertainment, 205, 210, 210n 94

Gellius on, 211, 211n 96

and Horace, 203, 213n113, 218, 224n 156

and Ligurinus, 203, 204n69, 205n 73

limited role of in circulation of literary

texts, 213

of little interest to poets, 218

for living authors of own works, 210,

210 n95, 225n 162

as one time event, 210, 212

Ovid on, 218, 219n 141

Pliny on, 202n57, 203 204, 207 209

of poetry, 187 188, 201, 202 203, 213

as precursor to publication, 208 210,

209 n88, 213

and Propertius, 203

role of, 208, 219n141, 283n 45

in Rome, 191

stand in for, 202n58, 203n 62

and Vergil, 202 203, 202n58, 202n 59

See alsooral performance

record keeping, 62 63, 334, 341

reflective reading, 400

religion, 350

and archives, 334

and literacy, 39

and writing, 340

reported speech and thought, 395 396

Republic(Plato), 258

ritualization, 122, 122n28, 123

Roman alphabet, 116, 334

Roman Britain.SeeBritain

Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB),54 56

Rufus, 240n 21

Sabinus, Calvisius, 210n 94

Sacerdos, Marius Plotius, 306

Sallust,Catilina,326 327

Sappho, 210n94, 258, 260

Sarapion (Apollonianus), 248n 46

Satirae(Horace), 193n23, 194n 26

Satyrus, 258, 259

General Index 427