Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East - The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature

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.

ISBN:	9780520267022
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	05 Jan 2011
DEWEY:	302.224409394
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	179
Weight:	440g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	20mm

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