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The Roman Audience: Classical Literature as Social History
T. P. Wiseman
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Hardcover. In an ambitious overview of a thousand years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T. P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of Roman 'literature' to mass public audiences. Num Pages: 352 pages, 27 illustrations, including a four-page colour plates section. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 247 x 29. Weight in Grams: 756.
Who were Roman authors writing for? Only a minority of the population was fully literate and books were very expensive, individually hand-written on imported papyrus. So does it follow that great poets and prose authors like Virgil and Livy, Ovid and Petronius, were writing only for the cultured and the privileged? It is this modern consensus that is challenged in this volume. In an ambitious overview of a thousand years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T. P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of ... Read more
Who were Roman authors writing for? Only a minority of the population was fully literate and books were very expensive, individually hand-written on imported papyrus. So does it follow that great poets and prose authors like Virgil and Livy, Ovid and Petronius, were writing only for the cultured and the privileged? It is this modern consensus that is challenged in this volume. In an ambitious overview of a thousand years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T. P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198718352
SKU
V9780198718352
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About T. P. Wiseman
T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter.
Reviews for The Roman Audience: Classical Literature as Social History
Wiseman's work will surely prove in the end to be a valuable and stimulating reconceptualization of the past.
Ann Vasaly, Language and Literature
The latest book by T.P. Wiseman is beautifully produced ... Wiseman writes with all his customary vigour ... Perhaps his most admirable characteristic as a scholar has always been his ability to imagine and ... Read more
Ann Vasaly, Language and Literature
The latest book by T.P. Wiseman is beautifully produced ... Wiseman writes with all his customary vigour ... Perhaps his most admirable characteristic as a scholar has always been his ability to imagine and ... Read more