Frontmatter

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