"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2011"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Writing, reading, public and private "literacies" : functional literacy and democratic literacy in Greece / Rosalind Thomas -- Literacy or literacies in Rome? / Greg Woolf -- Reading, hearing, and looking at Ephesos / Barbara Burrell -- The anecdote : exploring the boundaries between oral and literate performance in the second sophistic / Simon Goldhill -- Situating literacy at Rome / Thomas Habinek -- The corrupted boy and the crowned poet : or, the material reality and the symbolic status of the literary book at Rome / Florence Dupont -- The impermament text in Catullus and other Roman poets / Joseph Farrell -- Books and reading latin poetry / Holt N. Parker -- Papyrological evidence for book collections and libraries in the Roman empire / George W. Houston -- Bookshops in the literary culture of Rome / Peter White -- Literary literacy in Roman Pompeii : the case of Vergil's Aeneid / Kristina Milnor -- Constructing elite reading communities in the high empire / William A. Johnson -- Literacy studies in classics : the last twenty years / Shirley Werner -- Why literacy matters, then and now / David R. Olson.