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Literacy and power in the ancient world
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- Creator
- edited by Alan K. Bowman and Greg Woolf
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994
- Physical Details
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- ix, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521433693, 052143369X
- OCLC
- ocm28375800
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-244) and index.
- 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