Literacy and power in the ancient world / edited by Alan K. Bowman and Greg Woolf.

Other author Bowman, Alan K.
Other author Woolf, Greg.
Format Book
Edition1st pbk. ed.
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Descriptionix, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Literacy--Social aspects. --History.
History, Ancient.
Histoire ancienne.
Alphabétisation--Aspect social. --Histoire.

Cover title Literacy & power in the ancient world
Contents Literacy and power in the ancient world / Alan K. Bowman and Greg Woolf -- The Persepolis tablets : speech, seal and script / D.M. Lewis -- Literacy and the city-state in archaic and classical Greece / Rosalind Thomas -- Literacy and language in Egypt in the Late and Persian Periods / John Ray -- Literacy and power in Ptolemaic Egypt / Dorothy J. Thompson -- Power and the spread of writing in the West / Greg Woolf -- Texts, scribes and power in Roman Judaea / M.D. Goodman -- The Roman imperial army : letters and literacy on the northern frontier / Alan K. Bowman -- Literacy and power in early Christianity / Robin Lane Fox -- Greek and Syriac in Late Antique Syria / S.P. Brock -- Later Roman bureaucracy : going through the files / C.M. Kelly -- Literacy and power in the migration period / Peter Heather -- Texts as weapons : polemic in the Byzantine dark ages / Averil Cameron.
General note"First published 1994"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 216-244) and index.
ISBN0521587360 (pbk.)
ISBN9780521587365 (pbk.)