Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East
Presents an analysis of writing in different segments of society. This book offers a 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.
Print Book, English, ©2011
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2011
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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xiv, 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780520267022, 9780520275799, 0520267028, 0520275799
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Informal writing in a public place: the graffiti of Smyrna
The ubiquity of documents in the Hellenistic East
Documenting slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Greek and Coptic in late antique Egypt
Greek and Syriac in the Roman Near East
Writing on ostraca: a culture of potsherds?
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