In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William
Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite
in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study
fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the
communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny's teacher,
Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves
on to explore elite reading during the era of the Antonines,
including the medical community around Galen, the philological
community around Gellius and Fronto (with a look at the curious
reading habits of Fronto's pupil Marcus Aurelius), and the
intellectual communities lampooned by the satirist Lucian. Along
the way, evidence from the papyri is deployed to help to understand
better and more concretely both the mechanics of reading, and the
social interactions that surrounded the ancient book. The result is
a rich cultural history of individual reading communities that
differentiate themselves in interesting ways even while in
aggregate showing a coherent reading culture with fascinating
similarities and contrasts to the reading culture of today.
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