Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East / / Roger S. Bagnall
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| Autore: |
Bagnall Roger S
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| Titolo: |
Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East / / Roger S. Bagnall
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (179 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 302.2/24409394 |
| Soggetto topico: | Coptic inscriptions - Egypt |
| Graffiti - History | |
| Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) - Egypt | |
| Ostraka | |
| Printed ephemera - History | |
| Syriac language | |
| Written communication - Egypt - History | |
| Written communication - Middle East - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Informal Writing in a Public Place: The Graffiti of Smyrna -- 2. The Ubiquity of Documents in the Hellenistic East -- 3. Documenting Slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt -- 4. Greek and Coptic in Late Antique Egypt -- 5. Greek and Syriac in the Roman Near East -- 6. Writing on Ostraca: A Culture of Potsherds? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East |
| ISBN: | 1-283-27769-7 |
| 9786613277695 | |
| 0-520-94852-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814108703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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