{"product_id":"the-materiality-of-text-placement-perception-and-presence-of-inscribed-texts-in-classical-antiquity-9789004375505","title":"The Materiality of Text – Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 specificità, un altro punto di forza dell'approccio adottato è la sua multidisciplinarità: storia antica, filologia e archeologia, più 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 complessità. Per questo possiamo essere grati agli autori e agli editori.\"  Filippo Battistoni, Sehepunkte 19 (2019), Nr. 9 [15.09.2019].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Figures  Note on Contributors    The Materiality of Text: An Introduction   Andrej Petrovic    Part 1: Concepts    1 What is an ἐπιγραφή 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 Östenberg    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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210756251991,"sku":"9789004375505","price":124.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-materiality-of-text-placement-perception-and-presence-of-inscribed-texts-in-classical-antiquity-9789004375505","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}