Readers and reading culture in the high Roman Empire : a study of elite communities
Title:
Readers and reading culture in the high Roman Empire : a study of elite communities
Classical culture and society.
Author:
Johnson, William A. (William Allen), 1956-
ISBN:
9780195176407
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Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Physical Description:
x, 227 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series:
Classical culture and society.
Contents:
Reading as a sociocultural system -- The pragmatics of reading -- Pliny and the construction of reading communities -- Pliny, Tacitus, and the Dialogus de oratoribus -- Doctors and intellectuals : Galen's reading community -- Aulus Gellius : the life of the litteratus -- Fronto and Aurelius : contubernium and solitary reader -- Lucian's insufficient intellectual -- The papyri : scholars and reading communities in Graeco-Roman Egypt -- Conclusion.
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218)
Field 805:
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