Publications [#235263] of William Johnson

Articles

1. Johnson, WA. "Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire." Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome (2009): 320-330. [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/17)

   Abstract:
   © 2009 by Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved. This chapter takes Aulus Gellius's work entitled Attic Nights as an illustrative example to present a methodology for exposing the sociology of certain types of reading events and how a reading community makes use of texts. Attic Nights is composed of 400 short essays on miscellaneous topics and varies in narrative aims and strategies. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the ideological components and ways of using texts for different types of reading events.