Ancient literacies : the culture of reading in Greece and Rome /
This volume attempts to formulate new interesting ways of talking about the entire concept of literacy in the ancient world - literacy not in the sense of whether 10% or 30% of people in the ancient world could read or write, but in the sense of text-oriented events embedded in a particular socio-cu...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This volume attempts to formulate new interesting ways of talking about the entire concept of literacy in the ancient world - literacy not in the sense of whether 10% or 30% of people in the ancient world could read or write, but in the sense of text-oriented events embedded in a particular socio-cultural context. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: 2009. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 430 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190261283 0190261285 9780199793983 0199793980 |