Book History Colloquium: “How to Read Books Doing Things in Imperial Rome”

Joseph Howley Assistant Professor of Classics, Columbia University   September 26, 2013 (Thursday) Butler Library, Room 523 at 6:00 p.m. Between the Alexandrian aesthetics of the poetic book roll and the modern values of the industrially printed codex lies the world of  the Roman book.  This talk examines some uses of the material text in […]

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