Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman EastUniversity of California Press, 5 בינו׳ 2011 - 200 עמודים 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 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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| 7 | |
2 The Ubiquity of Documents in the Hellenistic East | 27 |
3 Documenting Slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt | 54 |
4 Greek and Coptic in Late Antique Egypt | 75 |
5 Greek and Syriac in the Roman Near East | 95 |
A Culture of Potsherds? | 117 |
Conclusion | 139 |
List of Illustrations | ix |
Preface | xiii |
Introduction | 1 |
The Graffiti of Smyrna | 7 |
2 The Ubiquity of Documents in the Hellenistic East | 27 |
3 Documenting Slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt | 54 |
4 Greek and Coptic in Late Antique Egypt | 75 |
5 Greek and Syriac in the Roman Near East | 95 |
Notes | 145 |
Bibliography | 161 |
Index | 175 |
Cover | 181 |
Contents | vii |
A Culture of Potsherds? | 117 |
Conclusion | 139 |
Notes | 145 |
Bibliography | 161 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East <span dir=ltr>Roger S. Bagnall</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2012 |
Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East <span dir=ltr>Roger S. Bagnall</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2011 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abusir accounts agora Amheida ancient Antinoopolis Aphrodite Aramaic archaeological Archives et sceaux Archivi e sigilli Bactrian Bagnall Basilica of Smyrna cartonnage century b.c.e. chapter Clackson Clarysse contracts Coptic Coptic letters Coptic papyri Coptic texts corpus datable Demotic Demotic Egyptian discovery docu document types dominant Dura-Europos early East Egyptian epigraphic everyday writing evidence excavations fifth century figure fourth century Gascou gennaio 1993 BCH graffiti Greek and Coptic hellénistique Herakleopolis Hermopolis inscriptions Kellis language late antiquity Latin leases legal documents literary MacCoull Masada material nome numbers official ostraca ostracon Oxyrhynchos papyri papyri and ostraca papyrology percent perhaps Persian Photograph by Constance Photograph courtesy plaster preserved probably Ptolemaic Egypt Ptolemaic period published receipts record Roman Egypt Roman period script sealings second century Sims-Williams slave sales slavery Smyrna society surviving Syriac tablets Tebtunis third century tion troves tury unpublished villages written Zenon archive