Ancient literacies the culture of reading in Greece and Rome / edited by William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker.
| Other author | Johnson, William A. (William Allen), 1956- |
| Other author | Parker, Holt N. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | xv, 430 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Writing, reading, public and private "literacies" : functional literacy and democratic literacy in Greece / Rosalind Thomas -- Literacy or literacies in Rome? / Greg Woolf -- Reading, hearing, and looking at Ephesos / Barbara Burrell -- The anecdote : exploring the boundaries between oral and literate performance in the second sophistic / Simon Goldhill -- Situating literacy at Rome / Thomas Habinek -- The corrupted boy and the crowned poet : or, the material reality and the symbolic status of the literary book at Rome / Florence Dupont -- The impermament text in Catullus and other Roman poets / Joseph Farrell -- Books and reading latin poetry / Holt N. Parker -- Papyrological evidence for book collections and libraries in the Roman empire / George W. Houston -- Bookshops in the literary culture of Rome / Peter White -- Literary literacy in Roman Pompeii : the case of Vergil's Aeneid / Kristina Milnor -- Constructing elite reading communities in the high empire / William A. Johnson -- Literacy studies in classics : the last twenty years / Shirley Werner -- Why literacy matters, then and now / David R. Olson. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008020329 |
| ISBN | 9780195340150 |
| ISBN | 0195340159 |
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