Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bagnall, Roger S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
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.
Communication écrite > Égypte > Histoire.
Papyrus grecs > Égypte.
Publications éphémères > Histoire.
Graffiti > Histoire.
Ostraca.
Syriaque (Langue) > Textes.
ostraka.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Literacy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Coptic inscriptions.
Graffiti.
Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
Printed ephemera.
Syriac language.
Written communication.
Egypt.
Middle East.
History.
Texts.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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