Readers and reading culture in the high Roman Empire: a study of elite communities

Abstract

Abbreviations 1. Reading as a Sociocultural System 2. The Pragmatics of Reading 3. Pliny and the Construction of Literary Culture 4. Pliny, Tacitus, and the Dialogus de oratoribus 5. Doctors and Intellectuals: Galen's Reading Community 6. Aulus Gellius: The Life of the Litteratus 7. Fronto and Aurelius: Contubernium and Solitary Reader 8. Lucian's Insufficient Intellectual 9. The Papyri: Scholars and Reading Communities in Graeco-Roman Egypt 10. Conclusion References Index