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Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Series: Sather Classical Lectures, 69
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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, however, 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.
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