Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East Bagnall Roger S
Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East Bagnall Roger S Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world-that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution-has…
Specifikacia Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East Bagnall Roger S
Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East Bagnall Roger S
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. 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. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S.
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 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.
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