How many people could read and write in the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans? No one has previously tried to give a systematic answer to this question. Mo

The subject of this study is in any case the literacy of the Greeks and Romans from the time when the former were first provably able to write a non-syllabic sc

This volume explores the significance of literacy for everyday life in the ancient world. It focuses on the use of writing and written materials, the circumstan

Explores the role of written and oral communication in Greece.

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