Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East.

XIV, 179 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition ( IJCT ) . - Sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - 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 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. Marshaling 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. ISBN 9780520267022