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...

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Other Authors: Johnson, William A. (William Allen), 1956-, Parker, Holt N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
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