Ancient Literacies

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Theodas, 240
Theodosian Code, 63
Theognis, 346
Theon, 259n 74
Theophrastus, 245
Thirty, the, 32 34
Thucydides, 240n20, 257n62, 346
Tibullus, 114, 153, 206
Timgad, 233, 243n 26
Timotheus, 17
tituli picti, 59
Toletanus, Iulianus, 306n 41
tombstones, 57
Trajan, 82
Trajan’s Forum, 82n 41
transliteration, 85, 85n51, 294n 19
Trebatius, 198, 198n 41
Trier,lusoriae tabulaefrom, 125 126
Tristia(Ovid), 156 160, 186
Trojan Women(Euripides), 100
Trypho, 275n21, 278, 279
Tyrannio, 273, 274, 274n16, 275,
276 n 22


Ulpian, 100
Ulpian Library, 276
‘‘Ulpian of Tyre,’’ 275n 20
UNESCO, and literacy, 3n5, 13, 387,
389
utterance
books as reproductions of, 145 146
defined, 146n 9
functions of, 393 394
and quoted expressions, 394, 395 396


Vai people (Liberia), 341, 389, 390
Valerianus, Pollius, 279n34, 280 281
Valette Cagnac, Emmanuelle, 114
Varius, 153, 183
Varro, 133 134, 276n23, 321, 322
Menippean Satires,284, 300
Vatinius, 280
Vergil, 127, 135, 135n64, 153
and acrostics, 129, 131
Aeneid,115, 173 174n17, 202, 224, 275,
298 299, 304 305, 338
Aeneidin Pompeian graffiti, 7, 289 291,
294 309, 308n44, 309 316
and book fraud, 281
Eclogues,148, 180 181, 183, 184, 201,
201 n53, 202
Ecloguesin Pompeian graffiti, 299,
316 317
and fictive utterance, 160
Georgics,121, 121n26, 131, 202


Georgicsin Pompeian graffiti, 299,
299 n26, 317
and recitation, 202 203, 202n58,
202 n59, 203n 59
unauthorized circulation of works by,
173 174n17, 281 282
Vico, G., 387
Victorinus, Marius, 306n 41
Vicus Sandaliarius, 271
Vicus Tuscus, 271
Villa of the Papyri (Herculaneum), 233
age of manuscripts of, 250, 250n 50
and duplicate books, 241n25, 257n 65
philosophy books in collection of,
240 n22, 256 257, 256n60, 257n 61
Vindolanda, 333, 342, 351
Volusius, 169 170, 172, 179
Vopiscus, Flavius,Historia Augusta,
243 n 28

Watt, Ian, 386, 390

weights system, 59
Women of Lemnos, 241
word games, 126 127, 135 136
writing, 42, 46 47, 59, 334, 335, 394, 395,
398
and acrostics, 135
assumptions on by prereading children,
391 393
and authority, 47 48
as autonomous, 143 144
and book, 143 144
cognitive implications of, 386 387, 392,
394
commercial uses for, 17, 25 26, 47 48,
52, 58, 64
creation of, 340, 392
cultural significance of, 340 341
and democratic process, 18 19, 21 24, 49
as distinct language, 136
distrust of, 165, 165n 2
early examples of, 116, 116n 11
and fictive utterance, 148
and illocutionary force, 394, 399
implications of, 385
and intellectuals, 339
and listening, 338
and literacy, 14, 15, 55, 398
mastery of, 123
on objects, 143
objects associated with at Pompeii, 302,
303 f
and oral performance, 114
and oral tradition, 333, 387

General Index 429

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