Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East write by Roger S. Bagnall. This book was released on 2012-04-23. Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is the most important and original study of literacy and the function of writing in ancient society to have appeared in the last twenty years. In a masterly and detailed survey of evidence from across the ancient Mediterranean world, Bagnall shows how and why 'routine' writing was essential to social and administrative infrastructures from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine periods. Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the role and function of the written text in human social behaviour." —Alan Bowman, Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford University "This richly illustrated and annotated book takes the reader on an extended tour from North Africa to Afghanistan. Bagnall’s theme is the ubiquity and pervasiveness of writing in the long millennium from Alexander to the Arab conquests and beyond. Briskly challenging the currently fashionable low estimates on the extent of literacy and the prevalence of writing in the ancient world, Bagnall surveys and explains what has survived and what has been lost—and why. This is a book both for specialists and for the general reader, sure to inspire admiration and reaction." —James G. Keenan, Professor of Classical Studies, Loyola University Chicago “Bagnall's book is not only a study of everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East, but also an investigation into how our documentation has been distorted by patterns of conservation and discovery and the choices made by modern editors. The sound reflections of an historian on the sources of history.” —Jean-Luc Fournet, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World
Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World write by Antonia Sarri. This book was released on 2017-11-20. Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have remained underexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing images of letters in the past. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital images and the appearance of more detailed and sophisticated editions, we are now in a position to study such aspects. This book examines the development of letter writing conventions from the archaic to Roman times, and is based on a wide corpus of letters that survive on their original material substrates. The bulk of the material is from Egypt, but the study takes account of comparative evidence from other regions of the Graeco-Roman world. Through analysis of developments in the use of letters, variations in formatting conventions, layout and authentication patterns according to the sociocultural background and communicational needs of writers, this book sheds light on changing trends in epistolary practice in Graeco-Roman society over a period of roughly eight hundred years. This book will appeal to scholars of Epistolography, Papyrology, Palaeography, Classics, Cultural History of the Graeco-Roman World.
Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World
Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World write by Antonia Sarri. This book was released on 2017-11-20. Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have remained underexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing images of letters in the past. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital images and the appearance of more detailed and sophisticated editions, we are now in a position to study such aspects. This book examines the development of letter writing conventions from the archaic to Roman times, and is based on a wide corpus of letters that survive on their original material substrates. The bulk of the material is from Egypt, but the study takes account of comparative evidence from other regions of the Graeco-Roman world. Through analysis of developments in the use of letters, variations in formatting conventions, layout and authentication patterns according to the sociocultural background and communicational needs of writers, this book sheds light on changing trends in epistolary practice in Graeco-Roman society over a period of roughly eight hundred years. This book will appeal to scholars of Epistolography, Papyrology, Palaeography, Classics, Cultural History of the Graeco-Roman World.
Representations of Writing Materials on Roman Funerary Monuments
Representations of Writing Materials on Roman Funerary Monuments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representations of Writing Materials on Roman Funerary Monuments write by Tibor Grüll. This book was released on 2023-11-02. Representations of Writing Materials on Roman Funerary Monuments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ancient funerary reliefs are full of representations of writing materials and instruments, the interpretation of which can help us better understand the phenomenon of ancient literacy. The eight studies in this volume enrich our knowledge of Roman writing with many new aspects and detailed observations.
Paul’s Letters and Contemporary Greco-Roman Literature
Paul’s Letters and Contemporary Greco-Roman Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paul’s Letters and Contemporary Greco-Roman Literature write by Paul Robertson. This book was released on 2016-05-23. Paul’s Letters and Contemporary Greco-Roman Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, Paul Robertson re-describes the form of the apostle Paul’s letters in a manner that facilitates transparent, empirical comparison with texts not typically treated by biblical scholars. Paul’s letters are best described by a set of literary characteristics shared by certain Greco-Roman texts, particularly those of Epictetus and Philodemus. Paul Robertson theorizes a new taxonomy of Greco-Roman literature that groups Paul’s letters together with certain Greco-Roman, ethical-philosophical texts written at a roughly contemporary time in the ancient Mediterranean. This particular grouping, termed a socio-literary sphere, is defined by the shared form, content, and social purpose of its constituent texts, as well as certain general similarities between their texts’ authors.
