Ancient Literacies : The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, Hardcover by ...

by William A. Johnson, Holt N. Parker

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Ancient Literacies : The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, Hardcover by Johnson, William A. (EDT); Parker, Holt N. (EDT), ISBN 0195340159, ISBN-13 9780195340150, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This timely volume attempts to formulate interesting new 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. The volume is intended as a forum in which selected leading scholars rethink from the ground up how students of classical antiquity might best approach the question of literacy in the past, and how that investigation might materially intersect with changes in the way that literacy is now viewed in other disciplines.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2009
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780195340150
• Condition: Fine

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