Ancient graffiti - hundreds of thousands of informal, ephemeral
texts spanning millennia - offer a patchwork of fragmentary
conversations in a variety of languages spread across the
Mediterranean world. Cut, painted, inked or traced in charcoal, the
surviving graffiti present a layer of lived experience in the
ancient world unavailable from other sources. "Graffiti in
Antiquity" reveals how and why the inhabitants of Greece and Rome -
men and women and free and enslaved - formulated written and visual
messages about themselves and the world around them as graffiti.
The sources - drawn from 800 BCE to 600 CE - are examined both
within their individual historical, cultural and archaeological
contexts and thematically, allowing for an exploration of social
identity in the urban society of the ancient world. An analysis of
one of the most lively and engaged forms of personal communication
and protest, "Graffiti in Antiquity "introduces a new way of
reading sociocultural relationships among ordinary people living in
the ancient world.
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!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
