Graffiti and the literary landscape in Roman Pompeii
By: Kristina Milnor
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780199684618
Subjects: Inschrift; Historia; Latin poetry; History and criticism; Latinsk litteratur; Litteratur och samhälle; Graffito; Graffiti; Latein; Intellektuellt liv; Latin Inscriptions
Other titles: Graffiti & the literary landscape in Roman Pompeii
Description: Kristina Milnor considers how the fragments of textual graffiti which survive on the walls of the Roman city of Pompeii reflect and refract the literary world from which they emerged. She then looks in detail at the role and nature of 'popular' literature in the early Roman Empire and the place of poetry in the Pompeian cityscape.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Landscape and literature in the Roman city; title: Poetic politics, political poetics; title: Authorship, appropriation, authenticity; title: Gender and genre: the case of CIL 4. 5296; title: A culture of quotation: Virgil, education, and literary ownership; title: Conclusion.