Empire of Letters: Writing in Roman Literature and Thought from Lucretius to Ovid

ISBN-13: 9780197651520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str.

Stephanie Ann (Associate Professor of Classical Literature

Recenzje

Frampton explores the fascinating minutiae of the physical act of writing in Roman antiquityâ. For those of us who love the Roman literary tradition,ÂEmpire of LettersÂimmerses us in the grit and gravel of Lucretius' and Virgil's tools of the trade, giving classically-minded readers the delightful opportunity to feel the papyrus and smell the wax.

O autorze

Stephanie Ann Frampton is a classicist, comparatist, and historian of the book in antiquity. She is Associate Professor of Classical Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.