Johnson, William A.
Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire

A Study of Elite Communities.

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 (with a look at Pliny's teacher, Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves on to explore elite reading during the era of the Antonines, including the medical community around Galen, the philological community around Gellius and Fronto (with a look at the curious reading habits of Fronto's pupil Marcus Aurelius), and the intellectual communities lampooned by the satirist Lucian. X,227 Seiten mit 5 Abb., gebunden (Classical Culture and Society/Oxford University Press 2010) Mängelexemplar/near mint