The materiality of text : placement, perception, and presence of inscribed texts in classical antiquity /

The materiality of text : placement, perception, and presence of inscribed texts in classical antiquity /

Written by an international cast of experts, The Materiality of Text showcases a wide range of innovative methodologies from ancient history, literary studies, epigraphy, and art history and provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physicality of writing in antiquity. The contributions focus...

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Other Authors: Petrovic, Andrej (Editor), Petrovic, Ivana (Editor), Thomas, Edmund (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Series: Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 11.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386266.

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Inscriptions, Greek.

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Call Number: CN350 .M34 2018

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures
  • Note on Contributors
  • The Materiality of Text: An Introduction /
  • Andrej Petrovic
  • Concepts
  • What is an ἐπιγραφή in Classical Greece? /
  • Athena Kirk
  • The Aesthetics and Politics of Inscriptions in Imperial Greek Literature /
  • Alexei Zadorojnyi
  • Contexts
  • Epigraphic Spaces
  • The 'Spatial Dynamics' of Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram: Conversations among Locations, Monuments, Texts, and Viewer-Readers /
  • Joseph W. Day
  • Lectional Signs in Greek Verse Inscriptions /
  • Valentina Garulli
  • Erasures in Greek Public Documents /
  • P. J. Rhodes
  • Literary Spaces: The Materiality of Text in Greek and Roman Literature
  • The Authority of Archaic Greek Epigram /
  • Donald E. Lavigne
  • Writing, Women's Silent Speech /
  • Michael A. Tueller
  • Hard Verses and Soft Books: The Materials of Elegy /
  • S. J. Heyworth
  • Architectural Spaces
  • The Power of the Absent Text: Dedicatory Inscriptions on Greek Sacred Architecture and Altars /
  • Ioannis Mylonopoulos
  • Re-Appraising the Value of Same-Text Relationships; a Study of 'Duplicate' Inscriptions in the Monumental Landscape at Aphrodisias /
  • Abigail Graham
  • Layers of Urban Life: A Contextual Analysis of Inscriptions in the Public Space of Pompeii /
  • Fanny Opdenhoff
  • Damnatio Memoriae Inscribed: The Materiality of Cultural Repression /
  • Ida Östenberg
  • Inscriptions between Text and Texture: Inscribed Monuments in Public Spaces - A Case Study at Late Antique Ostia /
  • Katharina Bolle
  • Framing Late Antique Texts as Monuments: The Tabula Ansata between Sculpture and Mosaic /
  • Sean V. Leatherbury.