• Abbreviations


• 1. Reading as a Sociocultural System


• 2. The Pragmatics of Reading


• 3. Pliny and the Construction of Literary Culture


• 4. Pliny, Tacitus, and the Dialogus de oratoribus


• 5. Doctors and Intellectuals: Galen's Reading Community


• 6. Aulus Gellius: The Life of the Litteratus


• 7. Fronto and Aurelius: Contubernium and Solitary Reader


• 8. Lucian's Insufficient Intellectual


• 9. The Papyri: Scholars and Reading Communities in Graeco-Roman Egypt


• 10. Conclusion


• References


• Index

William A. Johnson is Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Duke University.

Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire is a rich cultural history of individual reading communities that differentiate themselves in interesting ways.