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Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East [[electronic resource] /] / Roger S. Bagnall



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Autore: Bagnall Roger S Visualizza persona
Titolo: Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East [[electronic resource] /] / Roger S. Bagnall Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
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
Soggetto non controllato: 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
ostraka
papyri
papyrus
potsherds
roman egypt
roman empire
roman history
roman near east
slavery
smyrna
writing
written communication
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27769-7
9786613277695
0-520-94852-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785697903321
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Serie: Sather classical lectures ; ; v. 69.