Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii

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. 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.

About the author

Kristina Milnor is Professor and Chair of Classics and Ancient Studies at Barnard College where she has taught since 1998. She is the author of Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life (OUP, 2005), which won the 2006 Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association.

Summary

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. 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.

Additional text

Milnor covers much ground in this volume, examining the literary influences on graffiti, from epigram to ekphrasis, from funerary to epistolary, from elegy to panegyric.

Product details

• Authors: Kristina Milnor, Kristina (Professor and Chair of Classics Milnor, Milnor Kristina
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2014
• EAN: 9780199684618
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968461-8
• No. of pages: 332
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Rom, Texte: Antike und Mittelalter, European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, HISTORY / Europe / General, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Graffiti & street art, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, Other graphic or visual art forms, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient Roman style