Ancient Literacies

forum in which selected leading scholars were challenged to rethink from the ground up how students of classical antiquity might ...

about the ‘‘joined-up’’ relationship between private uses of writing and literacy practices as they are developed by the state. ...

than a container, a copy of something composed in the past; and this conceit is one that Catullus and the Augustan poets use to ...

time period, with specific goals (such as accumulation of philosophical texts), followed then by use, with only occasional augme ...

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY AND EPILOGUE Shirley Werner’s bibliographical essay and index (‘‘Literacy Studies in Clas- sics: The Last ...

nature of the questions raised along these lines (see Goldhill, Habinek, Parker) are a far remove from the likes of Eric Haveloc ...

Johnson, William A. 2000. ‘‘Towards a Sociology of Reading in Classical Anti quity.’’AJPh121: 593 627. . 2003. ‘‘Reading Culture ...

Part I SITUATING LITERACIES ...

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2 Writing, Reading, Public and Private ‘‘Literacies’’ Functional Literacy and Democratic Literacy in Greece Rosalind Thomas In 1 ...

advantages that that can bring. There is thus a fascinating tension between the obvious fact that writing makes certain activiti ...

I hope that this will circumvent the all-or-nothing approach to ancient literacy that sometimes occurs, and suggest a profitable ...

visible in Athens, where curse tablets were adapted for the peculiar local need against opponents in the democracy’s law courts. ...

makes possible a nuanced and flexible picture of several overlapping literacies, and illustrates the point that to examine ‘‘fun ...

hintsthat banksmight be enjoinedtokeep mattershidden as well askeeping records, we are dealing with a species of literate practi ...

high grade.^12 But again, are these simply helpful scribes? There is still considerable ambiguity, but the evidence seems to be ...

Figure 2.2Athenian Agora XXV,Ostraka, no.1097. no.768 (Lang 1990, fig. 23): ̈ìØóŁïå ÖæåÆæØïò an attempt at ̈åìØóŁïŒºåò ÖæåÆæØïò. ...

Figure 2.4Athenian Agora XXV,Ostraka, no.762. no.198 (Lang 1990, fig. 9):hØððïŒæÆô½Š`ºìåïíØäïò. K omitted in Alkmeoni dos. The s ...

correct genitive^16 —suggests the same. In a period such as this in which a standard orthography is not developed, let alone tau ...

still simply wrong. In other words, we find carelessness and semi-literacy, revealing, one may imagine, real unfamiliarity with ...