Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East

Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East /

Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, the author, a leading papyrologist, argues that ordinary people - from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan - used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized previously.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bagnall, Roger S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Series:Sather classical lectures ; v. 69.
Subjects:
Written communication > Egypt > History.
Written communication > Middle East > History.
Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) > Egypt.
Printed ephemera > History.
Graffiti > History.
Ostraka.
Coptic inscriptions > Egypt.
Syriac language > Texts.
ostraka.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Literacy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Coptic inscriptions
Graffiti
Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
Ostraka
Printed ephemera
Syriac language
Written communication
Egypt
Middle East
afghanistan.
ancient world.
antiquity.
aramaic.
britain.
coptic inscriptions.
documents.
egypt.
ephemera.
graffiti.
greek.
hellenism.
hellenistic east.
history.
informal writing.
latin.
linguistics.
literacy.
manuscripts.
middle east.
nonfiction.
papyri.
papyrus.
potsherds.
roman egypt.
roman empire.
roman history.
roman near east.
slavery.
smyrna.
writing.
written communication.
History
Texts
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Table of Contents:
  • Informal writing in a public place: the graffiti of Smyrna
  • The ubiquity of documents in the Hellenistic East
  • Documenting slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
  • Greek and Coptic in late antique Egypt
  • Greek and Syriac in the Roman Near East
  • Writing on ostraca: a culture of potsherds?

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