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Literacy in the Roman world

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Field name	Details
Title	Literacy in the Roman world / Mary Beard ... [et al.]
Publisher	Ann Arbor, MI : Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1991
Physical desc.	198 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Journal of Roman archaeology Supplementary series 3
Note	Published with the assistance of the University of Michigan.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	The tyranny of the evidence: a discussion of the possible uses of literacy in Etruria and Latium in the archaic age / Tim Cornell -- Ancient literacy and the function of the written word in Roman religion / Mary Beard -- Statistics or states of mind? / Nicholas Horsfall -- Literacy and the parietal inscriptions of Pompeii / James L. Franklin, Jr. -- L'écriture en quête de lecteurs / Mireille Corbier -- Literacy in the Roman empire: mass and mode / Alan K. Bowman -- Conquest by book / Keith Hopkins -- Ancient illiteracy / Ann Ellis Hanson.
Language Note	Seven essays in English; one in French.
Subject	Literacy -- Rome -- History
	Language and culture -- Rome
	Classical languages -- History
	Civilization, Classical
Added name(s)	Beard, Mary 1955-

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