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Literacy and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens (Paperback)
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Who wrote the administrative documents of Athens? Was literacy
extensive in ancient Attika? Were inscriptions, those on stone or
pieces of pottery (ostraka), written, read and comprehended by
common people? In this book Anna Missiou gives full consideration
to these questions of crucial importance for understanding the
quality of Athenian democracy and culture. She explores how the
Kleisthenic reforms provided new contexts and new subject matter
for writing. It promoted the exchange of reliable information
between the demes, the tribes and the urban centre on particular
important issues, including the mobilization of the army and the
political organization of the citizen body. Through a close
analysis of the process through which Athenian politicians were
ostracized and a fresh examination of the involvement of common
citizens in the Council of 500, Missiou undermines the current
orthodoxy that literacy was not widespread among Athenians.
Literacy underwrote the effective functioning of Athenian
democracy.
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