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  • Marietta Horster
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Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life
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Abstract

In the life of the educated and well-off citizens of the Hellenistic and Roman world, well told stories and well written history were part of the universe of letters, rhetoric and art. Notwithstanding the high methodological demands and thorough investigations of historiographers like Thukydides, Polybios or Tacitus, it is far from clear that the readers of their work appreciated high-standard historiography more than other genres of literature and technical writings. This paper addresses various methodological ways of approaches how to explore the esteem in which historiographical writing and history-telling was held outside the “inner circle” of historiography and its self-referential appreciation

Abstract

In the life of the educated and well-off citizens of the Hellenistic and Roman world, well told stories and well written history were part of the universe of letters, rhetoric and art. Notwithstanding the high methodological demands and thorough investigations of historiographers like Thukydides, Polybios or Tacitus, it is far from clear that the readers of their work appreciated high-standard historiography more than other genres of literature and technical writings. This paper addresses various methodological ways of approaches how to explore the esteem in which historiographical writing and history-telling was held outside the “inner circle” of historiography and its self-referential appreciation

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Preface ix
  4. Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life – Problems and Results 1
  5. I A Global Perspective
  6. The Development of Literacy in Early China: With the Nature and Uses of Bronze Inscriptions in Context, and More 13
  7. The Creation and Spread of Scripts in Ancient India 43
  8. Literacy in Pharaonic Egypt: Orality and Literacy between Agency and Memory 67
  9. Anmerkungen zu Literalität und Oralität im teispidisch-achaimenidischen Iran 99
  10. Der Raum alltäglicher weiblicher Literalität im Achaimeniden-Reich 113
  11. Literacy in Everyday Ancient Life: From Gabii to Gloucestershire 143
  12. II Roman Empire
  13. Social Groups
  14. Frauen und Schriftlichkeit im römischen Ägypten 163
  15. Soldiers and Documents: Insights from Nubia. The Significance of Written Documents in Roman Soldiers’ Everyday Lives 179
  16. Literacy in Roman Britain 201
  17. Schriftlichkeit und Wirtschaft im Römischen Reich 221
  18. Religious Practice
  19. Als die Götter lesen lernten: Keltisch-germanische Götternamen und lateinische Schriftlichkeit in Gallien und Germanien 239
  20. Schriftlichkeit in der Schadenzauberpraxis am Beispiel der vulgärlateinischen defixionum tabellae 261
  21. Administration
  22. Monumenta fatiscunt. Meaning and Fate of Legal Inscriptions on Bronze: the Baetica 289
  23. The Municipalization of Writing in Roman Egypt 319
  24. Who Needed Writing in Graeco-Roman Egypt, and for What Purpose? Document Layout as a Tool of Literacy 335
  25. Schreiben im Dienste des Staates. Prolegomena zu einer Kulturgeschichte der römischen scribae 351
  26. Education
  27. Geschichte und Geschichten im Alltag 363
  28. Bedrohte Latinitas. Sprachliche Veränderungen auf spätantik-frühmittelalterlichen Grabinschriften aus dem Rhein-Mosel-Gebiet 387
  29. List of Authors 413
  30. Fotograph of the Participants during the Conference 415
  31. Index 417
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110594065-019

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Preface ix
  4. Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life – Problems and Results 1
  5. I A Global Perspective
  6. The Development of Literacy in Early China: With the Nature and Uses of Bronze Inscriptions in Context, and More 13
  7. The Creation and Spread of Scripts in Ancient India 43
  8. Literacy in Pharaonic Egypt: Orality and Literacy between Agency and Memory 67
  9. Anmerkungen zu Literalität und Oralität im teispidisch-achaimenidischen Iran 99
  10. Der Raum alltäglicher weiblicher Literalität im Achaimeniden-Reich 113
  11. Literacy in Everyday Ancient Life: From Gabii to Gloucestershire 143
  12. II Roman Empire
  13. Social Groups
  14. Frauen und Schriftlichkeit im römischen Ägypten 163
  15. Soldiers and Documents: Insights from Nubia. The Significance of Written Documents in Roman Soldiers’ Everyday Lives 179
  16. Literacy in Roman Britain 201
  17. Schriftlichkeit und Wirtschaft im Römischen Reich 221
  18. Religious Practice
  19. Als die Götter lesen lernten: Keltisch-germanische Götternamen und lateinische Schriftlichkeit in Gallien und Germanien 239
  20. Schriftlichkeit in der Schadenzauberpraxis am Beispiel der vulgärlateinischen defixionum tabellae 261
  21. Administration
  22. Monumenta fatiscunt. Meaning and Fate of Legal Inscriptions on Bronze: the Baetica 289
  23. The Municipalization of Writing in Roman Egypt 319
  24. Who Needed Writing in Graeco-Roman Egypt, and for What Purpose? Document Layout as a Tool of Literacy 335
  25. Schreiben im Dienste des Staates. Prolegomena zu einer Kulturgeschichte der römischen scribae 351
  26. Education
  27. Geschichte und Geschichten im Alltag 363
  28. Bedrohte Latinitas. Sprachliche Veränderungen auf spätantik-frühmittelalterlichen Grabinschriften aus dem Rhein-Mosel-Gebiet 387
  29. List of Authors 413
  30. Fotograph of the Participants during the Conference 415
  31. Index 417
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