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Chargement... Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire: A Study of Elite Communities (Classical Culture and Society)par William A. Johnson
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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. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny andTacitus (with a look at Pliny's teacher, Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves on to explore elite reading during the era of the Antonines, including the medical community around Galen, the philological community around Gellius and Fronto (with a look at the curiousreading habits of Fronto's pupil Marcus Aurelius), and the intellectual communities lampooned by the satirist Lucian.Along the way, evidence from the papyri is deployed to help to understand better and more concretely both the mechanics of reading, and the social interactions that surrounded the ancient book. The result is a rich cultural history of individual reading communities that differentiate themselves ininteresting ways even while in aggregate showing a coherent reading culture with fascinating similarities and contrasts to the reading culture of today. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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