Urban and Suburban Attitudes to Writing on Walls? Pompeii and Environs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Theoretical and Methodical Approaches Around and About Writing
6. Dead Writing Matters? 15
7. Social Texts: How to Account for the Cultural Work of Carrier Media 27
8. Das synaktive Potential von Beischriften 43
9. Text Spaces
10. Listen im öffentlichen Raum hellenistischer Städte 79
11. Campaigning for Votes in Ancient Pompeii: Contextualizing Electoral Programmata 117
12. Messages from a Sacred Space: The Function of the Byzantine Sanctuary Barrier Inscriptions (9^th–14^th centuries) 145
13. Inscribed Monuments and Memory
14. Writing Past and Present in Hellenistic Athens: The Honours for Demosthenes 161
15. The Stele of Polybios 191
16. Inscribing in Columns in Fifth-Century Athens 205
17. Writing Practices: Seeing, Perceiving and Acting with Inscriptions
18. Text as Art? Byzantine Inscriptions and Their Display 265
19. Writing on Medieval Doors 285
20. Von sichtbaren und verborgenen Signaturen an mittelalterlichen Kirchen 309
21. Urban and Suburban Attitudes to Writing on Walls? Pompeii and Environs 353
22. Notes on Contributors 375
23. Index 379