Ancient graffiti in context / / edited by J.A. Baird and Claire Taylor

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 080.9
• Soggetto topico: Civilization, Ancient; Classical antiquities; Graffiti - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BairdJennifer A. <1978-> TaylorClaire <1978->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Ancient Graffi ti in Context: Introduction; 2 Dialogues of Graffiti in the House of the Four Styles at Pompeii (Casa Dei Quattro Stili, I.8.17, 11); 3 The Graffiti of Dura-Europos: A Contextual Approach; 4 Identifying Children's Graffiti in Roman Campania: A Developmental Psychological Approach; 5 Graffiti and the Epigraphic Habit: Creating Communities and Writing Alternate Histories in Classical Attica; 6 Transcripts of Dissent?: Political Graffiti and Elite Ideology Under the Principate ; 7 The Materiality of Graffiti: Socialising a Lekythos in Pherai8 Egyptian 'Inscriptions' and Greek 'Graffiti' at El Kanais in the Egyptian Eastern Desert; 9 Blogging Rome: Graffiti as Speech-Act and Cultural Discourse; 10 Graffiti in Aphrodisias: Images-Texts-Contexts; Contributors; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Graffiti are ubiquitous within the ancient world, but remain underexploited as a form of archaeological or historical evidence. They include a great variety of texts and images written or drawn inside and outside buildings, in public and private places, on monuments in the city, on objects used in daily life, and on mountains in the countryside. In each case they can be seen as actively engaging with their environment in a variety of ways. Ancient Graffiti in Context interrogates this cultural phenomenon and by doing so, brings it into the mainstream of ancient history and archaeol
• Titolo autorizzato: Ancient graffiti in context
• ISBN: 1-136-89463-2; 1-136-89464-0; 1-282-92995-X; 9786612929953; 0-203-84087-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459464603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in ancient history ; ; 2.