Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East - Sather Classical Lectures
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Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world-that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution-has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues that ordinary people-from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan-used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized. Marshalling new and little-known evidence, including remarkable graffiti recently discovered in Smyrna, Bagnall presents a fascinating analysis of writing in different segments of society. His book offers a new picture of literacy in the ancient world in which Aramaic rivals Greek and Latin as a great international language, and in which many other local languages develop means of written expression alongside these metropolitan tongues.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520275799 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 11 May 2012 |
DEWEY: | 411.09394 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 200 |
Weight: | 272g |
Height: | 223mm |
Width: | 148mm |
Spine width: | 12mm |