The Materiality of Text - Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity
Published on 25. October 2018
Book
Hardback
436 pages
978-90-04-37550-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"This generously illustrated book is a welcome publication that should reinvigorate the way in which we read and conceptualize epigraphic texts [...]Since this publication includes essays from the field of epigraphy, philology, and history of art and architecture, it should be of great interest to scholars across ancient disciplines. It represents a wide variety of perspectives, each of them pushing the field of epigraphy forward". Hanna Golab Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.06.28."Oltre alla specificita, un altro punto di forza dell'approccio adottato e la sua multidisciplinarita: storia antica, filologia e archeologia, piu giustapposte che in dialogo, forniscono un quadro variegato e coprono un'ampia area, sia geograficamente, sia temporalmente. [...] Il volume ha il merito di ricordarci come nello studio di documenti iscritti, accanto all'esercizio dell'epigrafia come scienza storica, sia utile, e addirittura necessario, affrontare il monumento nella sua complessita. Per questo possiamo essere grati agli autori e agli editori."
Filippo Battistoni, Sehepunkte 19 (2019), Nr. 9 [15.09.2019].
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Language
English
Other
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-37550-5 (9789004375505)
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Persons
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 OEstenberg, Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic, P. J. Rhodes, Edmund Thomas, Michael A. Tueller, Alexei Zadorojnyi.
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 OEstenberg, Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic, P. J. Rhodes, Edmund Thomas, Michael A. Tueller, Alexei Zadorojnyi.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Note on Contributors
The Materiality of Text: An Introduction
?Andrej Petrovic
Part 1: Concepts
1 What is an ???????? in Classical Greece?
?Athena Kirk
2 The Aesthetics and Politics of Inscriptions in Imperial Greek Literature
?Alexei Zadorojnyi
Part 2: Contexts
Section 1: Epigraphic Spaces
3 The 'Spatial Dynamics' of Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram: Conversations among Locations, Monuments, Texts, and Viewer-Readers
?Joseph W. Day
4 Lectional Signs in Greek Verse Inscriptions
?Valentina Garulli
5 Erasures in Greek Public Documents
?P. J. Rhodes
Section 2: Literary Spaces: The Materiality of Text in Greek and Roman Literature
6 The Authority of Archaic Greek Epigram
?Donald E. Lavigne
7 Writing, Women's Silent Speech
?Michael A. Tueller
8 Hard Verses and Soft Books: The Materials of Elegy
?S. J. Heyworth
Section 3: Architectural Spaces
9 The Power of the Absent Text: Dedicatory Inscriptions on Greek Sacred Architecture and Altars
?Joannis Mylonopoulos
10 Re-Appraising the Value of Same-Text Relationships; a Study of 'Duplicate' Inscriptions in the Monumental Landscape at Aphrodisias
?Abigail Graham
11 Layers of Urban Life: A Contextual Analysis of Inscriptions in the Public Space of Pompeii
?Fanny Opdenhoff
12 Damnatio Memoriae Inscribed: The Materiality of Cultural Repression
?Ida OEstenberg
13 Inscriptions between Text and Texture: Inscribed Monuments in Public Spaces - A Case Study at Late Antique Ostia
?Katharina Bolle
14 Framing Late Antique Texts as Monuments: The Tabula Ansata between Sculpture and Mosaic
?Sean V. Leatherbury
Indices
Index Locorum
Index Nominum
Index Rerum
List of Figures
Note on Contributors
The Materiality of Text: An Introduction
?Andrej Petrovic
Part 1: Concepts
1 What is an ???????? in Classical Greece?
?Athena Kirk
2 The Aesthetics and Politics of Inscriptions in Imperial Greek Literature
?Alexei Zadorojnyi
Part 2: Contexts
Section 1: Epigraphic Spaces
3 The 'Spatial Dynamics' of Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram: Conversations among Locations, Monuments, Texts, and Viewer-Readers
?Joseph W. Day
4 Lectional Signs in Greek Verse Inscriptions
?Valentina Garulli
5 Erasures in Greek Public Documents
?P. J. Rhodes
Section 2: Literary Spaces: The Materiality of Text in Greek and Roman Literature
6 The Authority of Archaic Greek Epigram
?Donald E. Lavigne
7 Writing, Women's Silent Speech
?Michael A. Tueller
8 Hard Verses and Soft Books: The Materials of Elegy
?S. J. Heyworth
Section 3: Architectural Spaces
9 The Power of the Absent Text: Dedicatory Inscriptions on Greek Sacred Architecture and Altars
?Joannis Mylonopoulos
10 Re-Appraising the Value of Same-Text Relationships; a Study of 'Duplicate' Inscriptions in the Monumental Landscape at Aphrodisias
?Abigail Graham
11 Layers of Urban Life: A Contextual Analysis of Inscriptions in the Public Space of Pompeii
?Fanny Opdenhoff
12 Damnatio Memoriae Inscribed: The Materiality of Cultural Repression
?Ida OEstenberg
13 Inscriptions between Text and Texture: Inscribed Monuments in Public Spaces - A Case Study at Late Antique Ostia
?Katharina Bolle
14 Framing Late Antique Texts as Monuments: The Tabula Ansata between Sculpture and Mosaic
?Sean V. Leatherbury
Indices
Index Locorum
Index Nominum
Index Rerum