Readers and reading culture in the high Roman Empire: a study of elite communities

In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus (w...

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Main Author: Johnson, William A. 1956- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford University Press c2010
In:Year: 2010
Series/Journal:Classical culture and society
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Roman Empire / Reading culture / History 27 BC-284
Further subjects:B Books and reading (Rome)
B Rome Intellectual life
B Books and reading Rome
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