Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East [electronic resource] / Roger S. Bagnall.

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

1 online resource (xiv, 179 p.) : ill.

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Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, the author, a leading papyrologist, argues that ordinary people - from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan - used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized previously.

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May 06, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.