Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- PART I: SITUATING LITERACIES -- 2 Writing, Reading, Public and Private ''Literacies'': Functional Literacy and Democratic Literacy in Greece -- 3 Literacy or Literacies in Rome? -- 4 Reading, Hearing, and Looking at Ephesos -- 5 The Anecdote: Exploring the Boundaries between Oral and Literate Performance in the Second Sophistic -- 6 Situating Literacy at Rome -- PART II: BOOKS AND TEXTS -- 7 The Corrupted Boy and the Crowned Poet: or, The Material Reality and the Symbolic Status of the Literary Book at Rome -- 8 The Impermanent Text in Catullus and Other Roman Poets -- 9 Books and Reading Latin Poetry -- PART III: INSTITUTIONS AND COMMUNITIES -- 10 Papyrological Evidence for Book Collections and Libraries in the Roman Empire -- 11 Bookshops in the Literary Culture of Rome -- 12 Literary Literacy in Roman Pompeii: The Case of Vergil's Aeneid -- 13 Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire -- PART IV: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY -- 14 Literacy Studies in Classics: The Last Twenty Years -- PART V: EPILOGUE -- 15 Why Literacy Matters, Then and Now -- Index Locorum -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.