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

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

An approach to literacy that understands it as lived and experienced in the everyday across varied spaces and populations. This book approaches literacy as live

Until recently, historians of reading have concentrated on book ownership and trying to map out a history of who read what. The reading experience has been a su

"This is the most important and original study of literacy and the function of writing in ancient society to have appeared in the last twenty years. In a master