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The Roman Book 1st Edition by Rex Winsbury ISBN 0715638297 9780715638293

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Author(s): Rex Winsbury

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 10.33 MB

Year: 2015

Language: english

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ISBN 10: 0715638297
ISBN 13: 9780715638293
Author: Rex Winsbury

The publishing of Roman books has long and often been misrepresented by false analogies with modern publishing. This comprehensive new study examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw materials and aesthetic criteria of the Roman book (a papyrus scroll) and the process of literary composition. What was the ‘scribal art’ of the time? What was the role of bookshops and libraries? What control did an author have over his creation? How were new books received and used by readers? To answer these questions Roman publishing is placed firmly in the context of a society that, despite the omnipresence of writing, was still predominantly oral. This context helps to explain how some books and authors became politically dangerous, and how the Roman book could be both a cultural icon and integral part of the self-definition of Rome’s governing elite and a direct contributor to popular culture through the mass medium of the Roman theatre.

The Roman Book 1st Edition Table of contents:

Myths and Anachronisms: The Need for a New Look at Roman Publishing
Format Wars: Scroll vs. Codex, Papyrus vs. Parchment, Pagan vs. Christian
Don’t Mess Up the Aesthetics: Marching Columns and Rivers of Letters
Did the Medium Shape the Message? Deciphering the Author’s Intent
Atticus and Co.: Roman Publishers?
Bookshops and Copyshops: A Trip to Rome’s Argiletum and Sigillaria
Books for Looks: The Library Shelves as Imperial Patronage
Slavery as the Enabling Infrastructure of Roman Literature
Getting into Circulation: From Private Space to Public Space
Effecte! Graviter! Cito! Nequitur! Euge! Beate!
The recitatio as an act of publication
Literature of the Voice: “Toss Me a Coin and I’ll Tell You a Golden Story”
The Battle for Survival: Mice and Worms, Plagiarism and Posterity
Bookburning and Treason: “A Time of Savagery Even in Peace”
Scripts for All Classes: The Theatre of Rome, Rome as Theatre
A Unitary Culture: Elite Self‑Definition and Romanitas for All

Appendices

Appendix A: Roman Shorthand—A Note on Tiro
Appendix B: Poetic Postures: Toto Notus in Orbe?
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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