Popular Culture in the Ancient World - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-vii

Contributors

pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-ix

Abbreviations

pp x-x

1 - Introduction: Approaching Popular Culture in the Ancient World

pp 1-36

Part I - Classical Greece

pp 37-88

2 - The Popular Culture of the Athenian Institutions: ‘Authorized’ Popular Culture and ‘Unauthorized’ Elite Culture in Classical Athens

pp 39-65

3 - Humouring the Masses: The Theatre Audience and the Highs and Lows of Aristophanic Comedy

pp 66-88

Part II - Rome

pp 89-164

4 - Popular Public Opinion in a Nutshell: Nicknames and Non-Elite Political Culture in the Late Republic

pp 91-106

5 - Plebeian Culture in the City of Rome, from the Late Republic to the Early Empire

pp 107-128

6 - Pollio’s Paradox: Popular Invective and the Transition to Empire

pp 129-148

7 - The Music of Power and the Power of Music: Studying Popular Auditory Culture in Ancient Rome

pp 149-164

Part III - The Roman Empire: Greece, Rome and Beyond

pp 165-234

8 - The Intellectual Life of the Roman Non-Elite

pp 167-188

9 - Divination and Popular Culture

pp 189-207

10 - Children’s Cultures in Roman Egypt

pp 208-234

Part IV - Late Antiquity

pp 235-317

11 - Interpreting the Kalends of January: A Case Study for Late Antique Popular Culture?

pp 237-256

12 - Popular Christianity and Lived Religion in Late Antique Rome: Seeing Magic in the Catacombs

pp 257-276

13 - Popular Theology in Late Antiquity

pp 277-295

14 - Communication and Plebeian Sociability in Late Antiquity: The View from North Africa in the Age of Augustine

pp 296-317

Bibliography

pp 318-364

Index

pp 365-369