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Copying the Canon: Imperial School Texts as Documentary Traces

  • Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne
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Documentality
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Abstract

This chapter analyzes ancient school compositions through the lens of Terrone’s model of the documentary trace: the understanding of the document as that which connects us to past social action. Although Ferraris’s teleological conception of documents merits challenges, Terrone’s notion of documentary traces can be fruitfully applied to the study of copying exercises in Imperial school papyri, which provided testimony of the students’ efforts to achieve paideia and assemble a library of the mind. Memory’s function as a key tool in demonstrating individual knowledge of the canon becomes visible when we examine copying exercises from the Roman schoolroom and explore whether such exercises could be considered documents. The cognitive facets of ancient pedagogical practice align with the model of the documentary trace, since these school exercises inscribed their lessons simultaneously into wax tablets and into the minds of Roman learners.

Abstract

This chapter analyzes ancient school compositions through the lens of Terrone’s model of the documentary trace: the understanding of the document as that which connects us to past social action. Although Ferraris’s teleological conception of documents merits challenges, Terrone’s notion of documentary traces can be fruitfully applied to the study of copying exercises in Imperial school papyri, which provided testimony of the students’ efforts to achieve paideia and assemble a library of the mind. Memory’s function as a key tool in demonstrating individual knowledge of the canon becomes visible when we examine copying exercises from the Roman schoolroom and explore whether such exercises could be considered documents. The cognitive facets of ancient pedagogical practice align with the model of the documentary trace, since these school exercises inscribed their lessons simultaneously into wax tablets and into the minds of Roman learners.

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  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Contents VII
  4. Abbreviations IX
  5. List of Figures XI
  6. Introduction 1
  7. Part I: Approaches to Ancient Documentality
  8. Documenting Identity in the Early Roman Empire 35
  9. Copying the Canon: Imperial School Texts as Documentary Traces 57
  10. Documenting Wonderland: Lucian’s True Stories and the Documentary imaginaire 79
  11. Part II: Documentary Communities and Landscapes
  12. Cities Full of Words: Illiteracy and Epigraphy in Lucian of Samosata 107
  13. Documenting the oikoumenê: What “Documents” Supported the Description of the Inhabited World in the Hellenistic and Early Imperial Periods? 133
  14. A Community Set in Stone? Monumental Decrees as Instruments of Greek Interactions 153
  15. Part III: Between Documents and Literature
  16. Dead Letters, Documentality, and the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius 181
  17. The Relationship between Documents and Literature in Late Antiquity: The Case of the Petition, between Document, Adaptation and Literary Creation 209
  18. When the Letter Speaks Up: Living and Lifeless Letters 233
  19. Epilogue
  20. The Ancient Historian and His Documents: Reader, Interpreter, and/or Author? 253
  21. List of Contributors 279
  22. Index Locorum 281
  23. Index Rerum 285
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791914-003

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Contents VII
  4. Abbreviations IX
  5. List of Figures XI
  6. Introduction 1
  7. Part I: Approaches to Ancient Documentality
  8. Documenting Identity in the Early Roman Empire 35
  9. Copying the Canon: Imperial School Texts as Documentary Traces 57
  10. Documenting Wonderland: Lucian’s True Stories and the Documentary imaginaire 79
  11. Part II: Documentary Communities and Landscapes
  12. Cities Full of Words: Illiteracy and Epigraphy in Lucian of Samosata 107
  13. Documenting the oikoumenê: What “Documents” Supported the Description of the Inhabited World in the Hellenistic and Early Imperial Periods? 133
  14. A Community Set in Stone? Monumental Decrees as Instruments of Greek Interactions 153
  15. Part III: Between Documents and Literature
  16. Dead Letters, Documentality, and the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius 181
  17. The Relationship between Documents and Literature in Late Antiquity: The Case of the Petition, between Document, Adaptation and Literary Creation 209
  18. When the Letter Speaks Up: Living and Lifeless Letters 233
  19. Epilogue
  20. The Ancient Historian and His Documents: Reader, Interpreter, and/or Author? 253
  21. List of Contributors 279
  22. Index Locorum 281
  23. Index Rerum 285
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