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Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii (Hardcover)
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Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii (Hardcover)
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In this volume, Milnor considers how the fragments of textual
graffiti which survive on the walls of the Roman city of Pompeii
reflect and refract the literary world from which they emerged.
Focusing in particular on the writings which either refer to or
quote canonical authors directly, Milnor uncovers the influence- in
diction, style, or structure-of elite Latin literature as the
Pompeian graffiti show significant connections with familiar
authors such as Ovid, Propertius, and Virgil. While previous
scholarship has described these fragments as popular distortions of
well-known texts, Milnor argues that they are important cultural
products in their own right, since they are able to give us insight
into how ordinary Romans responded to and sometimes rewrote works
of canonical literature. Additionally, since graffiti are at once
textual and material artefacts, they give us the opportunity to see
how such writings gave meaning to, and were given meaning by, the
ancient urban environment. Ultimately, the volume looks in detail
at the role and nature of 'popular' literature in the early Roman
Empire and the place of poetry in the Pompeian cityscape.
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