The materiality of text
Subtitle: placement, perception, and presence of inscribed texts in classical antiquity
By: edited by Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic, Edmund Thomas
Series: Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy -- volume 11; Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy -- v. 11.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9789004375505; 9789004379435
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Greek Inscriptions
Notes: "Written by an international cast of experts, The Materiality of Text showcases a wide range of innovative methodologies from ancient history, literary studies, epigraphy, and art history and provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physicality of writing in antiquity. The contributions focus on epigraphic texts in order to gauge questions of their placement, presence, and perception: starting with an analysis of the forms of writing and its perception as an act of physical and cultural intervention, the volume moves on to consider the texts' ubiquity and strategic positioning within epigraphic, literary, and architectural spaces. The contributors rethink modern assumptions about the processes of writing and reading and establish novel ways of thinking about the physical forms of ancient texts"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: What is an epigraphē in classical Greece? / Athena Kirk; title: The aesthetics and politics of inscriptions in imperial Greek literature / Alexei Zadorojnyi; title: The 'spatial dynamics' of archaic and classical Greek epigram : conversations among locations, monuments, texts, and viewer-readers / Joseph W. Day; title: Lectional signs in Greek verse inscriptions / Valentina Garulli; title: Erasures in Greek public documents / P. J. Rhodes; title: The authority of archaic Greek epigram / Donald E. Lavigne; title: Writing, women's silent speech / Michael A. Tueller; title: Hard verses and soft books : the materials of elegy / S. J.; title: The power of the absent text : dedicatory inscriptions on Greek sacred architecture and altars / Joannis Mylonopoulos; title: Re-appraising the value of same-text relationships : a study of 'duplicate' inscriptions in the monumental landscape at Aphrodisias / Abigail Graham; title: Layers of urban life : a contextual analysis of inscriptions in the public space of Pompeii / Fanny Opdenhoff; title: Damnatio memoriae inscribed : the materiality of cultural repression / Ida Östenberg; title: Inscriptions between text and texture : inscribed monuments in public ppaces: a case study at late antique Ostia / Katharina Bolle; title: Framing late antique texts as monuments : the tabula ansata between sculpture and mosaic / Sean V. Leatherbury.; title: 880-01