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Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome

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List of Contributors

1. Introduction

PART I Situating Literacies

2. Writing, Reading, Public and Private "Literacies": Functional Literacy and Democratic Literacy in Greece

3. Literacy or Literacies in Ancient Rome?

4. Reading, Hearing, and Looking at Ephesos

5. The Anecdote: Exploring the Boundaries between Oral and Literate Performance in the Second Sophistic

6. Situating Literacy at Rome

PART II Books and Texts

7. The Corrupted Boy and the Crowned Poet or the Material Reality and the Symbolic Status of the Literary Book at Rome

8. The Impermanent Text in Catullus and Other Roman Poets

9. Books and Reading Latin Poetry

PART III Institutions and Communities

10. Papyrological Evidence for Book Collections and Libraries in the Roman Empire

11. Bookshops in the Literary Culture of Rome

12. Literary Literacy in Roman Pompeii: the Case of Virgil's Aeneid

13. Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire

PART IV Bibliographical Essay

14. Literacy Studies in Classics: The Last Twenty Years

PART V Epilogue

15. Why Literacy Matters, Then and Now (May 30, 2006)

Index locorum

General Index

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