Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:54:16 +0100 (BST) From: Don Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Robert Dyer wrote (inter much very interesting alia): > I suspect that > the Roman nobility seldom read texts for themselves, but listened to > their slaves. There is massive evidence from all periods for personal private reading by all Romans who could read at all. For a representative anecdote, how about Augustus coming upon his grandson reading Cicero to himself and the boy trying to hide the roll in his toga (Plutarch 49.5)? But there are hundreds of references to personal reading at Rome. (Compare the recent demolition of the fantasy that Romans didn't write themselves either: McDonnell, Myles (1996) Writing, copying, and autograph manuscripts in ancient Rome. In: The Classical Quarterly. - Bd. 46 (1996), Heft 2. - S. 469-491.) On silent reading, I forgot to mention: Burnyeat, M.F. (1997) Postscript on silent reading. In: The Classical Quarterly. - Bd. 47 (1997), Heft 1. - S. 74-76. Don *************************************************************************** * Don Fowler, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Jesus College, Oxford OX1 3DW.* * [EMAIL PROTECTED], Telephone (01865) 279700, Fax (01865) 279687.* * Home Page: http://jesus.ox.ac.uk/~dpf/ * * Classics at Oxford: http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk * *************************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
