Title Ancient literacies : the culture of reading in Greece and Rome / edited by William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker

Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 430 pages) : illustrations 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 Notes Originally published: 2009 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Transmission of texts -- Greece Transmission of texts -- Rome Books and reading -- Greece Books and reading -- Rome Literacy -- Greece Literacy -- Rome Books and reading Literacy Transmission of texts Greece Rome (Empire) Form Electronic book Author Johnson, William A. (William Allen), 1956- Parker, Holt N ISBN 9780190261283 0190261285 9780199793983 0199793980

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