Skip to content
- Anderson, G. “Popular and Sophisticated in the Ancient Novel”, in Schmeling, G., ed., The Novel in the Ancient World, Leiden: Brill 1996, 107-113.
- Anderson, G., Fairytale in the Ancient World, London-New York: Routledge 2000.
- Beacham, R.C. The Roman Theatre and its Audience. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard Univ. Pr. 1991.
- Beacham, R.C. The Roman Theatre and its Audience. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard Univ. Pr. 1991.
- Brant, J.-A.A., C.A. Hedrick, C. Shea, eds. Ancient Fiction. The Matrix of Early Christian and Jewish Narrative. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature 2005.
- Citroni, M. “Marziale e la letteratura per i Saturnali (poetica dell’intrattenimento e cronologia della pubblicazione dei libri),” ICS 14 (1989): 201-226.
- Courrier, C. La plèbe de Rome et sa culture (fin du IIe siècle av. J.-C. – fin du Ier siècle ap. J.-C.). Rome: École Française 2014.
- Courtney, E. Musa Lapidaria. A Selection of Latin Verse Inscriptions, Atlanta (GE): Scholars Press 1995.
- Cugusi, P. Aspetti letterari dei Carmina Latina Epigraphica, 2nd ed., Bologna: Patron 1996.
- Duckworth, G.E.. The Nature of Roman Comedy. A Study in Popular Entertainment. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Pr. 1952.
- Fusillo, M. “Letteratura di consumo e romanzesca,” in Cambiano, G., L. Canfora, D. Lanza, eds. 1994, Lo spazio letterario della Grecia antica. Vol. I: La produzione e la circolazione del testo. III: I Greci e Roma, Roma: Salerno ed., 233-271.
- Futre Pinheiro, M.P., J. Perkins, R. Pervo, eds. The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections. Groningen: Barkhuis (“Ancient Narrative” suppl. 16) 2012.
- Graverini, L. “Ovidian Graffiti: Love, Genre and Gender on a Wall in Pompeii. A New Study of CIL IV 5296 – CLE 950,” Incontri di FIlologia Classica 12 (2012-2013), 1-28, also available online.
- Graverini, L. Literature and Identity in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Pr. (or. ed. Pisa 2007).
- Graverini, L., W. Keulen, A. Barchiesi. Il romanzo antico. Forme, testi, problemi. Roma: Carocci 2006 (an English translation is forthcoming).
- Hägg, T. “Orality, Literacy, and the Readership of the Early Greek Novel,” in Eriksen, R., ed., Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative, Berlin-New York: De Gruyter 1994, 47-81.
- Hansen, W., Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Pr. 1998.
- Horsfall, N. The Culture of the Roman Plebs. London: Bristol Classical Pr. 2003.
- Johnson, W.A., H.N. Parker. Ancient Literacies. The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, Oxford: OUP 2009.
- Mayer, E. The Ancient Middle Classes. Urban Life and Aesthetics in the Roman Empire, 100 BCE – 250 CE. Cambridge (Mass.) – London: Harvard Univ. Pr. 2012.
- Panayotakis, S. The Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre. A Commentary, Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2012.
- Pecere, O., A. Stramaglia, eds. 1996. La letteratura di consumo nel mondo greco-latino. Cassino: Università degli Studi di Cassino.
- Rawson, E. Intellectual Life in the Late Roman Republic, London: Duckworth 1985.
- Schmeling, G. “Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri,” in Schmeling, G., ed., The Novel in the Ancient World, Leiden: Brill 1996, 517-551.
- Scobie, A. Apuleius and Folklore: Toward a History of ML 3045, AaTh 567, 449A, London: The Folklore Society 1983.
- Stramaglia, A. Res inauditae, incredulae. Storie di fantasmi nel mondo greco-latino, Bari: Levante 1999.
- Toner, J. Popular culture in ancient Rome. Cambridge: Polity Pr. 2009.
- Wallace-Hadrill, A. “Trying to define and identify the Roman ‘middle classes’.” JRA 26 (2013): 605-609.