Preface
List of Plates
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1: Landscape and Literature in the Roman City
2: Poetic Politics, Political Poetics
3: Authorship, Appropriation, Authenticity
4: Gender and Genre: The Case of CIL 4. 5296
5: A Culture of Quotation: Virgil, Education, and literary
Ownership
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
Kristina Milnor is Professor and Chair of Classics and Ancient Studies at Barnard College where she has taught since 1998. She is the author of Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life (OUP, 2005), which won the 2006 Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association.
She [Milnor] comes across as a thoughtful and even tender curator
of a selection of demonstably accomplished graphic artefacts ...
Thanks to her, the last voices of Pompeii seem to buzz all the more
inventively before everyone falls silent.
*Emily Gowers, The Times Literary Supplement*
Milnor advances our understanding of what literature meant to the
general populace, while contributing to recent scholarship on the
social and material contexts of ancient graffiti ... Milnor's book
is a welcome addition to the field of graffiti studies.
*Sarah Levin-Richardson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
Throughout, she displays commendable control of her often difficult
subject matter, awareness of the importance adhering to evidentiary
and historical contextualisation ... the ability to balance
description with close reading and critical evaluation, and welcome
restraint from the impulse to over-develop narrative or
interpretation. Milnor approaches her Milnor approaches her study
in a direct, methodical and thorough manner ... an independent and
valuable contribution to historical knowledge.
*Peter Keegan, SHARP News*
Milnor covers much ground in this volume, examining the literary
influences on graffiti, from epigram to ekphrasis, from funerary to
epistolary, from elegy to panegyric.
*R. Benefiel, Journal of Roman Studies*
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