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| Acknowledgements |
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| Abbreviations |
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| General Preface to the Series |
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| Preface |
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| Introduction |
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Reading Ancient Texts: methodological approaches to interpretation and appropriation |
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29 | (16) |
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Part I: Notions of Collecting in the Ancient World |
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Collecting Material Testimonies: antiquarianism and notions of the past |
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45 | (22) |
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`Gifts-to-Men and Gifts-to-Gods': defining (collecting) values |
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67 | (38) |
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The Concept of the Individual as a Cultural Category: its implications in classical collecting |
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105 | (32) |
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Collecting in Time and Space in the Classical World |
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137 | (36) |
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Part II: Classical Collectors and Collections |
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Visiting Pliny's Collection: reading a `museum' |
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173 | (48) |
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Poet's Gifts, Collector's Words: the epigrams of Martial |
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221 | (24) |
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`Luxury is Not for Everybody': collecting as a means of sharing cultural and social identity |
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245 | (24) |
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`Furnishing' the Collector's World: Cicero's Epistulae and the Verrine Orations |
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269 | (38) |
| Conclusions |
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307 | (10) |
| Bibliography |
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317 | (32) |
| Index |
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