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T. P. Wiseman

The Roman Audience

Classical Literature as Social History

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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 'literature' to mass public audiences. The treatment is c… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-102814-4
  • EAN: 9780191028144
  • Produktnummer: 19557335
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 328 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 30'819 KB
  • Abbildungen: 27 illustrations, including a four-page colour plates section

Über den Autor


T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter.

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