Departmental Papers (Classical Studies)
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of this Version
2009
Publication Source
Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome
Start Page
164
Last Page
185
Abstract
To us, who have lived our entire lives in a culture saturated with print, it seems obvious that the survival of a verbal artifact for any length of time would be impossible without material texts. To a writer, getting published is the necessary first step toward a potentially limitless Nachleben. The fact that, ceteris paribus, a new book is more likely to be pulped within a few years than to survive into the following century doesn't really enter into consideration. In a general way, publication itself is considered a form of immortality.
Copyright/Permission Statement
Reproduced by permission of the Oxford University Press.
Recommended Citation
Farrell, Joseph. (2009). The Impermanent Text in Catullus and Other Roman Poets. In W. A. Johnson and H. N. Parker (Eds.), Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome (pp. 164-185). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Date Posted: 06 January 2017