The Materiality of Text - Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37550-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Band 11, 418 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy

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 on epigraphic texts in order to gauge questions of their placement, presence, and perception: starting with an analysis of the forms of writing and its perception as an act of physical and cultural intervention, the volume moves on to consider the texts’ ubiquity and strategic positioning within epigraphic, literary, and architectural spaces. The contributors rethink modern assumptions about the processes of writing and reading and establish novel ways of thinking about the physical forms of ancient texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Petrovic, Andrej

Petrovic, Ivana

Thomas, Edmund

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Andrej Petrovic, Ph.D. (2004), Heidelberg, is Professor of Classics at University of Virginia. He has published books on Greek epigraphy, literature, and religion. His latest book is Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (OUP 2016, co-authored with I. Petrovic).

Ivana Petrovic, Ph.D. (2004), Heidelberg/Giessen, is Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at University of Virginia. She has published monographs, edited volumes and written articles on Greek literature, religion, and magic including Artemiskult in der Hellenistischen Dichtung (Brill 2007).

Edmund Thomas, D.Phil. (1994), Oxford, is Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at Durham University. He has published widely on Roman architecture and its reception, including Monumentality of the Roman Empire (OUP, 2007).

Contributors are: Katharina Bolle, Joseph W. Day, Valentina Garulli, Abigail Graham, Stephen J. Heyworth, Athena Kirk, Donald E. Lavigne, Sean V. Leatherbury, Joannis Mylonopoulos, Fanny Opdenhoff, Ida Östenberg, Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic, P. J. Rhodes, Edmund Thomas, Michael A. Tueller, Alexei Zadorojnyi.