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844351
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Howley, Joseph A.
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Aulus Gellius and Roman reading culture : : text, presence, and imperial knowledge in the Noctes Atticae /\ Joseph A. Howley.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :: Cambridge University Press,, 2018
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, ©2018
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1 online resource (x, 282 pages)
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1108186815
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: 9781108186810
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: 9781108650038
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1316510123
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1316649490
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9781316510124
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9781316649497
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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3 Paratext and the ReaderA Latin Tradition of Tables of Contents?; Epictetus and Arrian: Another Imperial Table of Contents; The Heads of Things in the NA; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Gellius in the History of Writing about Reading; Introduction; 1 How Gellius Writes about Reading; Gellius the Reader; Gellius the Further Reader; Gellius the Roman Reader; 2 Ancient Writers about Reading: Quintilian, Pliny, Plutarch; Quintilian; Pliny; Plutarch; 3 The Active and Internal Reader beyond Classical Antiquity; Pre- and Early Modern Ethics of Reading; Scrutinizing the Reading of the Other and the Self.
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Chapter 4 Encounters with Tradition in Gellian ResearchIntroduction; 1 Tradition and Commentary in the Transmission and Reception of Antiquity; Turning to Commentary for Assistance in Antiquarian Reading; Commentary and Tradition in Imperial Rome; Commentators and Exegetes as Problematic Individuals; 2 Fugitive Scholar: Tiro and the Figure of the Mediating Authority; Tiro the Editor; Tiro the Scholar; Tiro the Exegete; Tiro the Slave; 3 Gellian Excerpts as Depiction of Critical Research Narrative; A Diversity of Sources and the Archaeology of opinio; Gellian Intervention.
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Exercises for the ReaderArranged Fragments as Depictions of Process; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Favorinus, Fiction, and Dialogue at the Limits of Expertise; Introduction; 1 Noctes Atticae: An Imperial Work of Dialogic Fiction; Classical Origins: Plato and Cicero; Dialogue in the Roman Empire: Plutarch, Lucian, Epictetus; Speech, Fiction, and the Mind in the Noctes Atticae; 2 Gellius in Dialogue with Experts; Grammarians; Rhetors; Miscellaneous Experts; 3 Favorinus: Philosophy in the Flesh; The Peculiar Authority of Favorinus the Philosopher; Favorine Fluidity as Foundational Gellian Value.
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Performative Reading in the Age of Mass Media and MultimediaConclusion; Chapter 3 Gellius on Pliny; Introduction; 1 Meeting Pliny on the Pier; First Reading: The Appeal of Old Books and Strange Stories; In Search of Pliny; 2 Re-Encountering Pliny and Rereading Gellius; Second Reading: NA 9.4 as Challenge to Pliny; Another Second Reading: Excesses of the Critic; Magical Chameleons and Clever Devices; 3 The Bookish without their Books: Readerly Lifestyle in Gellius; Between the Book and the Reader's Memory; The Absence of Texts; Conclusion: Representing Reading to the Reader.
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| Abstract
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Reveals the importance of Gellius' Noctes Atticae for the history of reading, thought, and intellectual culture in the Graeco-Roman world.
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Gellius, Aulus., Noctes Atticae.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY-- Latin.
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Intellectual life.
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Noctes Atticae (Gellius, Aulus)
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Rome, Intellectual life.
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Rome (Empire)
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| Dewey Classification
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878.01
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| LC Classification
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PA6391
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