Literacy and power in the ancient world /

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Other Authors: Bowman, Alan K., Woolf, Greg.

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Language: English

Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Call Number: LC149 .L4958 1994

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245 0 0 |a Literacy and power in the ancient world /   |c edited by Alan K. Bowman and Greg Woolf. 
264 1 |a Cambridge ;   |a New York :   |b Cambridge University Press,  |c 1994. 
300 |a ix, 249 pages :   |b illustrations ;   |c 24 cm. 
500 |a OCLC 28375800 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-244) and index. 
505 0 |a •1. Literacy and power in the ancient world •2. The Persepolis Tablets: speech, seal and script •3. Literacy and the city-state in archaic and classical •4. Literacy and language in Egypt in the Late and Persian Periods •5. Literacy and power in Ptolemaic Egypt Dorothy •6. Power and the spread of writing in the West •7. Texts, scribes and power in •8. The Roman imperial army: letters and literacy on the northern frontier •9. Literacy and power in early Christianity •10. Greek and Syriac in Late Antique •11. Later Roman bureaucracy: going through the files •12. Literacy and power in the migration period •13. Texts as weapons: polemic in the Byzantine dark ages  
650 0 |a History, Ancient. 
650 0 |a Literacy  |x Social aspects  |x History. 
700 1 |a Bowman, Alan K.,  
700 1 |a Woolf, Greg.  |9 42376 
901 |a reviewed 
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