Readers and reading culture in the high roman empire: a study of elite communities
Johnson, William
In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome,with a focus on specific communities witnessed in surviving literary sources and in the papyri. The result is a rich cultural history of individual readingcommunities that differentiate themselves in interesting ways even while in aggregate showing a coherent reading culture with fascinating similarities and contrasts to the reading culture of today. INDICE: Abbreviations; 1: Reading as a Sociocultural System; 2: The Pragmatics of Reading; 3: Pliny and the Construction of Literary Culture; 4: Pliny, Tacitus, and the Dialogus de oratoribus; 5: Doctors and Intellectuals: Galen's Reading Community; 6: Aulus Gellius: The Life of the Litteratus; 7: Frontoand Aurelius: Contubernium and Solitary Reader; 8: Lucian's Insufficient Intellectual; 9: The Papyri: Scholars and Reading Communities in Graeco-Roman Egypt; 10: Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-19-517640-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 250
- Fecha Publicación: 24/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés