Literacy and power in the ancient world /
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Language: English
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1994.
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Call Number: LC149 .L4958 1994
Table of Contents:
- •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