Research Catalog

Title

Literacy and power in the ancient world / edited by Alan K. Bowman and Greg Woolf.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bowman, Alan K.
• Woolf, Greg.

Description

ix, 249 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Literacy > Social aspects > History
• History, Ancient

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-244) and index.

Contents

Literacy and power in the ancient world / Alan K. Bowman and Greg Woolf -- The Persepolis tablets : speech, seal and script / D.M. Lewis -- Literacy and the city-state in archaic and classical Greece / Rosalind Thomas -- Literacy and language in Egypt in the Late and Persian Periods / John Ray -- Literacy and power in Ptolemaic Egypt / Dorothy J. Thompson -- Power and the spread of writing in the West / Greg Woolf -- Texts, scribes and power in Roman Judaea / M.D. Goodman -- The Roman imperial army : letters and literacy on the northern frontier / Alan K. Bowman -- Literacy and power in early Christianity / Robin Lane Fox -- Greek and Syriac in Late Antique Syria / S.P.Brock -- Later Roman bureaucracy : going through the files / C.M. Kelly -- Literacy and power in the migration period / Peter Heather -- Texts as weapons : polemic in the Byzantine dark ages / Averil Cameron.

Call Number

JFE 94-12421

ISBN

052143369X (hardback)

LCCN

93005494

OCLC

• 28375800
• NYPGR28375800-B

Title

Literacy and power in the ancient world / edited by Alan K. Bowman and Greg Woolf.

Imprint

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-244) and index.

Added Author

Bowman, Alan K.

Woolf, Greg.

Research Call Number

JFE 94-12421