Literacy and Power in the Ancient World
Literacy and Power in the Ancient World
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USDThis book consists of a series of studies, each by a specialist in a different period or area of the ancient history of the Mediterranean world and northern Europe, examining the relationship between power and the use of writing in ancient society. The studies range in date from c. 600 B.C. to A.D. 800. It is intended not to provide a complete coverage of the ancient world but to use particular case studies to examine ways in which the relationship between literacy and power can be analyzed.
- Literacy is a hot topic
- Excellent group of very high-powered scholars
- Wide spread of cultures covered: Persian, Greek, Syriac, Egyptian, Roman, Christian, Byzantine
Reviews & endorsements
'Bowman and Woolf's collection has many virtues – not least putting Greek and Roman experience into a wider ancient context. All classicists must read it to broaden their range and enlarge their operating framework.' The Classical Review
'This book is highly informative and always interesting . . . ' JACT Review
Product details
January 1997Paperback
9780521587365
260 pages
227 × 153 × 13 mm
0.37kg
4 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Literacy and power in the ancient world Alan K. Bowman and Greg Woolf
- 2. The Persepolis Tablets: speech, seal and script D. M. Lewis
- 3. Literacy and the city-state in archaic and classical Greece Rosalind Thomas
- 4. Literacy and language in Egypt in the Late and Persian Periods John Ray
- 5. Literacy and power in Ptolemaic Egypt Dorothy J. Thompson
- 6. Power and the spread of writing in the West Greg Woolf
- 7. Texts, scribes and power in Roman Judaea M. D. Goodman
- 8. The Roman imperial army: letters and literacy on the northern frontier Alan K. Bowman
- 9. Literacy and power in early Christianity Robin Lane Fox
- 10. Greek and Syriac in Late Antique Syria S. P. Brock
- 11. Later Roman bureaucracy: going through the files C. M. Kelly
- 12. Literacy and power in the migration period Peter Heather
- 13. Texts as weapons: polemic in the Byzantine dark ages Averil Cameron.
