Ancient Literacies

scholarship, 350
and role of writing in development of, 340
schooling
cognitive implications of, 389, 391
and literacy, 398
science, 349
and role of writing in development of, 340
Scipiones, 120
scriba, 269 n 4
scribal literacy, 47
scribes, 47 48, 255
and annotations, 259
and Breccia 1932 find, 257n 64
and Grenfell and Hunt’s finds, 252 254t,
255 256, 256n56 256n58, 257 258,
257 n63, 258n66, 259, 260
and ostraka, 18 19
Second Sophists, 97n 3
and anecdote, 111 112
in Ephesos, 86 88
and linguistic performance, 99, 107 108
and oral performance, 98
Secundus, 279n 34
Selinous, 15
Seneca the Elder, 193n 23
Seneca the Younger, 135n 64
on bookshops, 277 278, 278n 29
onchreia, 105 n 23
on lucubration, 324
on reading, 196n29, 197, 197n35,
197 n36, 204, 204n 67
Septuagint, 145
Sestius, 280
Severus, 198, 198n42, 207
sibylline books, 144
Sicilian Gela lead tablet, 26
Sicily, 15
Sigillaria, 271n 8
sillyboi,243, 243n 28
Simon, 239n 5
singing, in poetry, 175 177, 179 181, 184
slaves, 59, 59n 36
as extension of master, 121 122
and writing, 25, 52, 122
‘‘slow writer,’’ 23, 28
social aspects
of literacy, 14 15, 49, 49n11, 321, 334,
341, 385, 388 389, 393
of writing, 5, 9, 61, 117, 119, 120,
123 124, 136, 333, 339, 386 387
Socrates, 96, 109
Solon, 346
song, 348
‘‘song culture,’’ 341
Sophocles, 258 260

Sosius brothers, and Horace, 153, 268, 279

South Gate of the Agora, Ephesos.SeeGate

of Mazaeus and Mithridates (Ephesos)

Sparta, 350

speech

and awareness of language, 391

functions of, 395

and poetry, 175

and reading, 114, 123

and writing, 5, 8, 114, 122, 123, 123n32,

135, 136, 149, 165n3, 303 304, 387,

395, 398, 401

speech acts, theory of, 393 394

Spurinna, 199 200, 204n67, 205n 70

state

and documentation, 49, 49n10, 63,

63 n48, 64

and literacy, 5, 52 53, 333

and writing, 5, 47 50, 55, 61 62, 64

Statius, 274

Stilo, Aelius, 251n 51

Stoicism, 135, 135n 64

stone epigraphy, 53

subjectivity, 401

and illocutionary force, 395 396

language of, 399

rise of in modern novels, 395

and writing, 393

Suetonius, 63n47, 171n11, 210n95,

276 n24, 279

De grammaticis, 285

Suffenus, 149, 170 172, 179

Sulla, 150 151

private library of, 274n16, 276, 276n22,

278

Susa, Italy, arch of, 74, 74n 17

syllabic scripts, 335

symbolization

as disconnected from speech, 135

and language, 124 125

Symposium(Plato), 109 110, 235, 246

Sympotic Questions(Plutarch), 109 110

tabulae iliacae,127, 128f, 129

Tabula Iliaca Capitolina, 127, 128f, 129

tabula lusoria, 134

Tacitus, 205n74, 206n76, 217n131, 324

technical writing, 340, 351

Temple of Apollo, library of, 276

Temple of Peace, library of, 276

Terracina, election notice from, 297n 22

tesserae nummulariae,118, 118n,119,

121 122

theatrical performance, 188, 203, 205

Theocritus, 258

428 General Index