Everyday Writing in the Graeco-roman East

By: Roger S. Bagnall

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Paperback | 23 April 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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 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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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Informal Writing in a Public Place: The Graffiti of Smyrna	p. 7
The Ubiquity of Documents in the Hellenistic East	p. 27
Documenting Slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt	p. 54
Greek and Coptic in Late Antique Egypt	p. 75
Greek and Syriac in the Roman Near East	p. 95
Writing on Ostraca: A Culture of Potsherds?	p. 117
Conclusion	p. 139
Notes	p. 145
Bibliography	p. 161
Index	p. 175
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