Bagnall Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-520-94852-5
Verlag: Mayo Clinic Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 69, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Sather Classical Lectures

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bagnall, Roger S.