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Author and Audience in Vitruvius' De architectura
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Greek knowledge and the Roman world; 2. The self-fashioning of scribes; 3. House and man; 4. Art display and strategies of persuasion; 5. The vermilion walls of Faberius Scriba; Epilogue.

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The first study in English of Vitruvius' De architectura to take the work seriously as a literary and cultural product.

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Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols is Assistant Professor of Classics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. She works primarily on the literature, art, and culture of Ancient Rome.

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'Nichols has produced an exceptional book that will inevitably shape the scholarly conversation about Vitruvius the author for some time to come. That it is a book of such high quality in so many respects - including production - is fortunate indeed.' John Matthew Oksanish, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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