Readers and reading culture in the high Roman Empire : a study of elite communities /
Johnson, William A.(William Allen),1956-
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2010.
Reading as a sociocultural system -- The pragmatics of reading -- Pliny and the construction of reading communities -- Pliny, Tacitus, and the Dialogus de oratoribus -- Doctors and intellectuals : Galen's reading community -- Aulus Gellius : the life of the litteratus -- Fronto and Aurelius : contubernium and solitary reader -- Lucian's insufficient intellectual -- The papyri : scholars and reading communities in Graeco-Roman Egypt -- Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218).
Books and reading