Authors and Their Public in Ancient Times: A Sketch of Literary Conditions and of the Relations With the Public of Literary Producers, From the ... Fall of the Roman Empire (Classic Reprint) - Geo, Paperback

• Release Date   1/4/2018
• ISBN-13   9781330489307 | 978-1-330-48930-7
• ISBN   1330489306 | 1-330-48930-6
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   Geo Haven Putnam
• Excerpt from Authors and Their Public in Ancient Times: A Sketch of Literary Conditions and of the Relations With the Public of Literary Producers, From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Roman EmpireProperty of this kind, namely, in the form of a right, duly recognized by the State, to the control of an intellectual production, assuredly did not exist in Athens, in Alexandria, or in classic Rome. There is evidence, however, although often of a very frag mentary and inconclusive character, that in these cities and in other literary centres of the later classic world, there gradually came into existence a system or a practice under which authors secured some compensation for their labors.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully. any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.