Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Palaeography
|
Buy Now
Roman Record Keeping & Communications (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R512
Discovery Miles 5 120
You Save: R112
(18%)
|
|
Roman Record Keeping & Communications (Hardcover)
(sign in to rate)
List price R624
Loot Price R512
Discovery Miles 5 120
You Save R112 (18%)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
The assumption is that most of what we know about the Romans and
their history comes from Roman and Greek historians. While this is
true up to a point, the reality is that there are many other
primary sources which combine to give us the composite picture we
have today of the Romans and their world. The Romans had in effect
their own brand of social media, engineered to disseminate
information, legislation, propaganda and misinformation to state
and religious officials, citizens, the military and to the enemy,
wherever they be. We know what the Romans did for us: roads,
central heating and so on. But, just as importantly, they developed
and perfected records and record-keeping and other methods of
information storage and communication. It is the Roman
preoccupation with record keeping and dissemination that informs
the picture we have today of Roman civilisation. This is the first
book to analyse what is in effect Roman social media: the keeping
of records and archive material, and ways of communicating it.
Uniquely, it assesses the impact this information had on and in
Roman history and on our appraisal of that history.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.