The Roman paratext : frame, texts, readers / edited by Laura Jansen.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: approaches to Roman paratextuality; Theoretical frameworks; Frameworks of investigation; After paratextuality; 1 Crossing the threshold: Genette, Catullus and the psychodynamics of paratextuality; 2 Starting with the index in Pliny; Misleading the reader (1): Pliny's Natural History; Misleading the reader (2): Pliny's Letters; The ancient index to Pliny's Letters; Starting with the index in Pliny's Letters; From dialogue to revolution.

3 The topography of the law book: common structures and modes of readingThe topography of the law book: ius civile and the Twelve Tables; Shifting topographies: from Twelve Tables to the praetorian edict; Topography as paratext: horizontal reading and reordering as modes of reading; 4 Cicero's capita; Capita in early Roman legal texts; Capita in Roman papyri; Further use of capita in inscriptions; Origins of the capitulation of Cicero's works; First possibility: ancient readers; Second possibility: an authoritative "edition"; Third possibility: Cicero.

The Ciceronian caput: some initial thoughtsAppendix 1 The surviving capitulation of Cicero's Verrines; 1. PRyl. 477; 2. [Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, A. II. 2*; 3. PSI 20; 4. Vatican, BAV, Reg. Lat. 2077; Appendix 2 The surviving capitulation of Cicero's Pro Scauro and Pro Tullio in passages shared by the Milan and Turin palimpsests; Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, S.P. 11.66; [Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, A. II. 2*; 5 Tarda solacia: liminal temporalities of Statius' prose prefaces; ista dies: occasions for poetry; celeritas: speedy composition; otium: leisure time; mora: delay and other mishaps.

Why liminality?Conclusion; 6 Intertitles as deliberate misinformation in Ammianus Marcellinus; Beginnings, ends and cross references; The fourth century; 7 Paratextual perspectives upon the SC de Pisone patre; 8 Paratext and intertext in the Propertian poetry book; Authorial preface and reader response; Paratext inscribed; Papyrotechnics: Towards a 'fussier' model?; 9 Pictorial paratexts: floating figures in Roman wall painting; Love in the triclinium: ideology and pedagogy at the Roman dinner table; Revisiting the Vettii's Ixion room.

Paratexts without a text? The mythological lovers of oecus QConclusion; 10 The paratext of Amores 1: gaming the system; Theoretical preliminaries; Ovidian bookishness; Metapoetics: Reading from the edge; Erotopoetics: reclaiming the edge; 11 "Sealing" the book: the sphragis as paratext; Georgics 4.559-66: The sphragis as paratext; Horace Odes 3.30: death as closure; Propertius 1.21and 22: Genre and closure; Sealing off the book; 12 Paraintertextuality: Spenser's classical paratexts in The Shepheardes Calender; 13 Modern covers and paratextual strategy in Ovidian elegy.

Book covers between Genette and Derrida.

The first synoptic study of the interplay of frame, texts and readers in classical studies.

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