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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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Sather classical lectures ;
v. 69. |
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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?