Materiality of Text – Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity

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 Östenberg, Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic, P. J. Rhodes, Edmund Thomas, Michael A. Tueller, Alexei Zadorojnyi.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNote on ContributorsThe Materiality of Text: An IntroductionAndrej PetrovicPart 1: Concepts1 What is an ἐπιγραφή in Classical Greece?Athena Kirk2 The Aesthetics and Politics of Inscriptions in Imperial Greek LiteratureAlexei ZadorojnyiPart 2: ContextsSection 1: Epigraphic Spaces3 The ‘Spatial Dynamics’ of Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram: Conversations among Locations, Monuments, Texts, and Viewer-ReadersJoseph W. Day4 Lectional Signs in Greek Verse InscriptionsValentina Garulli5 Erasures in Greek Public DocumentsP. J. RhodesSection 2: Literary Spaces: The Materiality of Text in Greek and Roman Literature6 The Authority of Archaic Greek EpigramDonald E. Lavigne7 Writing, Women’s Silent SpeechMichael A. Tueller8 Hard Verses and Soft Books: The Materials of ElegyS. J. HeyworthSection 3: Architectural Spaces9 The Power of the Absent Text: Dedicatory Inscriptions on Greek Sacred Architecture and AltarsJoannis Mylonopoulos10 Re-Appraising the Value of Same-Text Relationships; a Study of ‘Duplicate’ Inscriptions in the Monumental Landscape at AphrodisiasAbigail Graham11 Layers of Urban Life: A Contextual Analysis of Inscriptions in the Public Space of PompeiiFanny Opdenhoff12 Damnatio Memoriae Inscribed: The Materiality of Cultural RepressionIda Östenberg13 Inscriptions between Text and Texture: Inscribed Monuments in Public Spaces – A Case Study at Late Antique OstiaKatharina Bolle14 Framing Late Antique Texts as Monuments: The Tabula Ansata between Sculpture and MosaicSean V. LeatherburyIndicesIndex LocorumIndex NominumIndex Rerum

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