David Petrain received his PhD in Classical Philology from the Department of the Classics at Harvard University, Massachusetts. He is a scholar of Greek and Latin language and literature with expertise in the art and material culture of ancient Rome. His articles about ancient poetry and other texts written on papyrus or inscribed in stone have appeared in the Transactions of the American Philological Association, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, and Mnemosyne. His co-edited volume, The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry (with Jan Kwapisz and Mikolaj Szymanski), was published in 2012.
Introduction
1. Reading visual narrative in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds
2. Tabula and taxis
3. The semantics of the center
4. Narrative in frieze and panel
5. Findspots, display contexts, and the Roman public library
6. Epic in miniature
Appendix 1. Conspectus of the Tabulae Iliacae
Appendix 2. Description of selected Tabulae: texts and images.
