Literacy and Power in the Ancient World (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Literacy and Power in the Ancient World This collection attempts to set the study of literacy in the ancient world in the wider contexts of the debates among anthropologists over the impact of writing on society.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 01 January 1997
- Format: Paperback 260 pages
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- Categories: Literacy | General & World History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE
- ISBN 13: 9780521587365 ISBN 10: 0521587360
- Sales rank: 648,092
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Full description for Literacy and Power in the Ancient World
This collection attempts to set the study of literacy in the ancient world in the wider contexts of the debates among anthropologists over the impact of writing on society. Was writing a revolutionary innovation, prompting or participating in social change, or a fundamentally repressive and disciplinary technology? The book consists of a series of studies ranging over the whole of the Mediterranean world and much of northern Europe during a period of more than a millennium (c. 600 BC-AD 800). The areas examined include Pharaonic and Hellenistic Egypt, Persia and the Near East, Judaea, classical Greece, and the Roman and the Byzantine empires. Each of the contributors investigates, in his or her particular area of expertise, the changing roles of writing in history, in particular the extent to which writing played an active role in historical change in antiquity.
