Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East(English, Paperback, Bagnall Roger S.)

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Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East(English, Paperback, Bagnall Roger S.) is written by Bagnall Roger S. and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520275799 (ISBN 10) and 9780520275799 (ISBN 13).

Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world - that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution - has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues that ordinary people - from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan - used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized. Marshalling new and little-known evidence, including remarkable graffiti recently discovered in Smyrna, Bagnall presents a fascinating analysis of writing in different segments of society. His book offers a new picture of literacy in the ancient world in which Aramaic rivals Greek and Latin as a great international language, and in which many other local languages develop means of written expression alongside these metropolitan tongues.