Readers and reading culture in the high Roman Empire
Subtitle: a study of elite communities
By: William A. Johnson.
Series: Classical culture and society
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195176407
Subjects: Books and reading -- Rome; Rome -- Intellectual life
Table of contents: title: Reading as a sociocultural system; title: The pragmatics of reading; title: Pliny and the construction of literary culture; title: Pliny, Tacitus, and the Dialogus de oratoribus; title: Doctors and intellectuals : Galen's reading community; title: Aulus Gellius : the life of the litteratus; title: Fronto and Aurelius : contubernium and solitary reader; title: Lucian's insufficient intellectual; title: The papyri : scholars and reading communities in Graeco-Roman Egypt; title: Conclusion.