Book of Donmon Teith

This volume explores the significance of literacy for everyday life in the ancient world. It focuses on the use of writing and written materials, the circumstan

The subject of this study is in any case the literacy of the Greeks and Romans from the time when the former were first provably able to write a non-syllabic sc

This collection presents "more than 650 readings about daily life from present-day authors ..."--Inside jacket flap.

How many people could read and write in the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans? No one has previously tried to give a systematic answer to this question. Mo

Until recently, historians of reading have concentrated on book ownership and trying to map out a history of who read what. The reading experience has been a su