Graffiti in antiquity /
Ancient graffiti - hundreds of thousands of informal, ephemeral texts spanning millennia - offer a patchwork of fragmentary conversations in a variety of languages spread across the Mediterranean world. Cut, painted, inked or traced in charcoal, the surviving graffiti present a layer of lived experi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Summary: | Ancient graffiti - hundreds of thousands of informal, ephemeral texts spanning millennia - offer a patchwork of fragmentary conversations in a variety of languages spread across the Mediterranean world. Cut, painted, inked or traced in charcoal, the surviving graffiti present a layer of lived experience in the ancient world unavailable from other sources. Graffiti in Antiquity reveals how and why the inhabitants of Greece and Rome - men and women and free and enslaved - formulated written and visual messages about themselves and the world around them as graffiti. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-326) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781844656073 1844656071 |