Roman Literary Culture
Subtitle: From Cicero to Apuleius (Ancient Society and History)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University P
Published: April 21, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801862014
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Roman Literature; History: World; Ancient Rome - History; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Latin; Ancient Rome; Intellectual life; Ancient - General; Ancient and Classical; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Rome; Ancient - Rome; History and criticism; Latin Literature; Literature and history
First sentence: access to a text, so that the experience is single and linear, without possibility of review; a readership implies access only through a text; and a public implies distribution to a wide group outside the circle of the poet or writer. In early Latin literature, public and occasion go together, as they often will.