Documentality : : New Approaches to Written Documents in Imperial Life and Literature /

Documentality : : New Approaches to Written Documents in Imperial Life and Literature / / ed. by Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne, Scott Jared DiGiulio, Inger Neeltje Irene Kuin.

This volume unites scholars of classical epigraphy, papyrology, and literature to analyze the documentary habit in the Roman Empire. Texts like inscriptions and letters have gained importance in classical scholarship, but there has been limited analysis of the imaginative and sociological dimensions...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Amory, Yasmine,
Arthur-Montagne, Jacqueline,
Bodel, John,
Corbier, Mireille,
DiGiulio, Scott J.,
Fournet, Jean-Luc,
Kamphorst, Sjoukje M.,
Kuin, Inger N. I.,
Mheallaigh, Karen ní,
Schneider, Pierre,
HerausgeberIn:
Arthur-Montagne, Jacqueline,
DiGiulio, Scott Jared,
Kuin, Inger Neeltje Irene,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 132
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 290 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Approaches to Ancient Documentality
  • Documenting Identity in the Early Roman Empire
  • Copying the Canon: Imperial School Texts as Documentary Traces
  • Documenting Wonderland: Lucian’s True Stories and the Documentary imaginaire
  • Part II: Documentary Communities and Landscapes
  • Cities Full of Words: Illiteracy and Epigraphy in Lucian of Samosata
  • Documenting the oikoumenê: What “Documents” Supported the Description of the Inhabited World in the Hellenistic and Early Imperial Periods?
  • A Community Set in Stone? Monumental Decrees as Instruments of Greek Interactions
  • Part III: Between Documents and Literature
  • Dead Letters, Documentality, and the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius
  • The Relationship between Documents and Literature in Late Antiquity: The Case of the Petition, between Document, Adaptation and Literary Creation
  • When the Letter Speaks Up: Living and Lifeless Letters
  • Epilogue
  • The Ancient Historian and His Documents: Reader, Interpreter, and/or Author?
  • List of Contributors
  • Index Locorum
  • Index Rerum

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