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ROMAN LITERARY CULTURE From Cicero to Apuleius
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ROMAN LITERARY CULTURE From Cicero to Apuleius Softcover - 1999

by Fantham, Professor Elaine

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The Johns Hopkins University Press. Near Fine. 1999. Softcover. 0801862019 . Scholars' name to ffep (Mark Golden). Else book is fine. ; Ancient Society and History; 352 pages; Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as how these works were produced and who read them. In Roman Literary Culture, Elaine Fantham fills that void by examining the changing social and historical context of literary production in ancient Rome and its empire. Fantham discusses the habits of Roman readers and developments in their means of access to literature, from booksellers and copyists to pirated publications and libraries. She examines the issues of patronage and the utility of literature. She shows how the constraints of the physical object itself—the ancient "book"—influenced the practice of both reading and writing. And she explores the ways in which ancient criticism and critical attitudes reflected cultural assumptions of the time. .
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  • Title ROMAN LITERARY CULTURE From Cicero to Apuleius
  • Author Fantham, Professor Elaine
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
  • Date 1999
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 17654
  • ISBN 9780801862014 / 0801862019
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.54 x 5.55 x 0.85 in (21.69 x 14.10 x 2.16 cm)
  • Ages 22 to UP years
  • Grade levels 17 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code 870.900

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access to a text, so that the experience is single and linear, without possibility of review; a readership implies access only through a text; and a public implies distribution to a wide group outside the circle of the poet or writer. In early Latin literature, public and occasion go together, as they often will.

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About the author

Elaine Fantham is Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University. She is co-author of "Women in the Classical World: Image and Text."

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