Empire of Letters: Writing in Roman Literature and Thought from Lucretius to Ovid
Stephanie Ann Frampton
Abstract
Empire of Letters studies representations of texts and media in Roman authors from Lucretius to Ovid (c. 55 BCE–15 CE) in order to demonstrate how ancient writers conceived of the world, their work, and their own identities through material forms of writing. Drawing together methods of interpretation from a wide variety of fields (including Greek and Latin philology, epigraphy, papyrology, manuscript studies, literary criticism, media theory, and book history) and uniting close readings of major authors with the careful analysis of the physical forms inhabited by ancient texts (papyrus bookrol ... More
Keywords: Roman literature, history of the book, papyrus, wax tablets, epigraphy, Catullus, Horace, Ovid, Virgil, Lucretius
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9780190915407 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: June 2020 | DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190915407.001.0001 |
