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Michael Juster

01-10-2011 06:38 PM

Off-the-wall question

Is anyone aware of any scholarship on the Roman (Augustan era or so) definition of a "book"?

As always, many thanks.

Marcia Karp

01-10-2011 09:12 PM

On-the-mark answer?

You might start with this, Michael: Frederic G. Kenyon, Books and Readers in Ancient Greece and Rome, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951). It's a very good book. Enjoyable and short. You can read it at BU's Mugar in a couple of hours.

Marcia

Michael Juster

01-11-2011 04:19 AM

In response to private message: The term in Latin was "liber" and physically it was a scroll.

Michael Juster

01-11-2011 05:03 AM

Marcia:

Great find! And one that's leading to others.

Consider yourself chastely kissed across cyberspace.

Mike

Marcia Karp

01-11-2011 08:36 AM

Well, if I'm getting kisses for the one, I'll pm you a small list.

Michael Juster

01-11-2011 09:03 PM

Got what I needed! Thanks again!

Julie Steiner

01-11-2011 09:33 PM

LOL! It looks like you chaste him off, Marcia.

Marcia Karp

01-12-2011 04:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Julie Stoner (Post 181435)

LOL! It looks like you chaste him off, Marcia.

Well, the explicit is required when reading a scroll. And ain't it just like a man: Got what I needed. Ta ta. But Mike is okay in my book, er liber.

Marcia

Michael Cantor

01-12-2011 04:51 PM

But he said, "Thank you, ma'am."

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