The Materiality Of Text Placement Perception And Presence Of Inscribed Texts In Classical Antiquity Andrej Petrovic Ivana Petrovic Edmund Thomas by Andrej Petrovic; Ivana Petrovic; Edmund Thomas 9789004375505, 9004375503 instant download after payment.

Written by an international cast of experts,The Materiality of Textshowcases a wide range of innovative methodologies from ancient history, literary studies, epigraphy, and art history and provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physicality of writing in antiquity. The contributions focus on epigraphic texts in order to gauge questions of their placement, presence, and perception: starting with an analysis of the forms of writing and its perception as an act of physical and cultural intervention, the volume moves on to consider the texts' ubiquity and strategic positionings within epigraphic, literary, and architectural spaces. The contributors rethink modern assumptions about the processes of writing and reading and establish novel ways of thinking about the physical forms of ancient texts.