Farrell, Joseph2023-05-222023-05-222009-01-012017-01-06Farrell, Joseph. (2009). The Impermanent Text in Catullus and Other Roman Poets. In W. A. Johnson and H. N. Parker (Eds.), Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome (pp. 164-185). Oxford: Oxford University Press.https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/8020To us, who have lived our entire lives in a culture saturated with print, it seems obvious that the survival of a verbal artifact for any length of time would be impossible without material texts. To a writer, getting published is the necessary first step toward a potentially limitless Nachleben. The fact that, ceteris paribus, a new book is more likely to be pulped within a few years than to survive into the following century doesn't really enter into consideration. In a general way, publication itself is considered a form of immortality.Reproduced by permission of the Oxford University Press (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ancient-literacies-9780195340150?q=The%20Impermanent%20Text%20in%20Catullus%20and%20Other%20Roman%20Poets&lang=en&cc=gb#).Arts and HumanitiesClassicsBook Chapter