Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome Reprint Edition

by William A. Johnson (Editor), Holt N. Parker (Editor)

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Recent advances in cognitive psychology, socio-linguistics, and socio-anthropology are revolutionizing our understanding of literacy. However, this research has made only minimal inroads among classicists. In turn, historians of literacy continue to rely on outdated work by classicists (mostly from the 1960's and 1970's) and have little access to the current reexamination of the ancient evidence. This timely volume seeks to formulate interesting new ways of conceiving the entire concept of literacy in the ancient world, as text-oriented events embedded in particular socio-cultural contexts.

In the volume, selected leading scholars rethink from the ground up how students of classical antiquity might best approach the question of literacy in the past, and how that investigation might materially intersect with changes in the way that literacy is now viewed in other disciplines. The result will give readers new ways of thinking about specific elements of "literacy" in antiquity, such as the nature of personal libraries, or what it means to be a bookseller in antiquity; new constructionist questions, such as what constitutes reading communities and how they fashion themselves; new takes on the public sphere, such as how literacy intersects with commercialism, or with the use of public spaces, or with the construction of civic identity; new essentialist questions, such as what do "book" and "reading" signify in antiquity, why literate cultures develop, or why literate cultures matter.

Containing new work from today's outstanding scholars of literacy in antiquity, Ancient Literacies will be an indispensable collection for all students and scholars of reading cultures in the classical world.

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Lest we neglect the obvious reflexivity of a book about books, editors and press should be commended for excellent production, proofreading, and indices and bibliography. The book as an artifact more than lives up to its value as text. And any scholar of ancient texts with a glimmer of interest in context will find something of use within. * Joseph Howley, Journal of Roman Studies *

About the Author

William A Johnson is Professor of Classical Studies, Duke University. He is the author of Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire.

Holt N. Parker is Professor of Classics, University of Cincinnati.

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Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (June 8, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199793980
ISBN-13: 978-0199793983
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 1.1 x 6.1 inches
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Review of Ancient Literacies

January 2, 2013

Format: Paperback

There are a lot of really sharp essays in this collection--several that cut directly to the heart of literary studies, and their most pressing uses and controversies in classical research. It's difficult to say which are better than the others. If you're going to read just one book on theories of ancient reading cultures, and measurements of ancient literacy, I recommend this one.

[n.b. the book is fairly Latinist-centric; there were only two or three essays on Greek reading culture, to my memory]

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