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Index
Cover Page
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
Editor’s Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. Myths and anachronisms: the need for a new look at Roman publishing
What was the Roman book?
2. Format wars: scroll v. codex, papyrus v. parchment, pagan v. Christian
3. Don’t mess up the aesthetics: marching columns and rivers of letters
4. Did the medium shape the message? Deciphering the author’s intent
Deconstructing the Roman book trade
5. Atticus and Co. – Roman publishers?
6. Bookshops and copyshops: a trip to Rome’s Argiletum and Sigillaria
7. Books for looks: the library shelves as imperial patronage
What the Latin tells us
8. Slavery as the enabling infrastructure of Roman literature
9. Getting into circulation: from private space to public space
Texts in an oral/aural society
10. Effecte! Graviter! Cito! Nequitur! Euge! Beate!: the recitatio as act of publication
11. Literature of the voice: ‘toss me a coin and I’ll tell you a golden story’
The perils of publishing
12. The battle for survival: mice and worms, plagiarism and posterity
13. Bookburning and treason: ‘a time of savagery even in peace’
Gluing it all together
14. Scripts for all classes: the theatre of Rome, Rome as theatre
15. A unitary culture: elite self-definition and Romanitas for all
Appendix A. Roman shorthand: a note on Tiro
Appendix B. Poetic postures: toto notus in orbe?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Footnotes
Preface
Imprint Page
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