Graffiti and the literary landscape in Roman Pompeii

Graffiti and the literary landscape in Roman Pompeii / Kristina Milnor.

This study concerns the fragments of textual graffiti which survive on the walls of the Roman city of Pompeii, destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 ce. In particular, it focuses on those writings which either quote canonical authors directly, or show the influence--in diction, style, or struc...

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Main Author: Milnor, Kristina (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Graffiti > Italy > Pompeii (Extinct city)
Latin poetry > History and criticism.
Inscriptions, Latin > Italy > Pompeii (Extinct city)
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
Graffiti
Inscriptions, Latin
Latin poetry
Graffito
Inschrift
Latein
Inschrift.
Graffito.
Latinsk litteratur > historia.
Litteratur och samhälle.
Intellektuellt liv.
Italy > Pompeii (Extinct city)
Pompeji
Pompeji.
Pompéi (Italie)
Italien > Pompeji (övergiven stad)
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Landscape and literature in the Roman city
  • Poetic politics, political poetics
  • Authorship, appropriation, authenticity
  • Gender and genre : the case of CIL 4. 5296
  • A culture of quotation : Virgil, education, and literary ownership.

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