Ancient Literacy PDF book is popular History book written by William V. HARRIS. The book was released by Harvard University Press on 2009-06-30 with total hardcover pages 406. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Ancient Literacy by William V. HARRIS in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
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 angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. From the first lines of the Iliad to the
This volume commemorates the 65th birthday of William Vernon Harris (on September 13, 2003), when a group of his former students agreed to honor him with a coll
Between 327 and 70 B.C. the Romans expanded their empire throughout the Mediterranean world. This highly original study looks at Roman attitudes and behavior th
From the Iliad to Aristophanes, from the gospel of Matthew to Augustine, Greek and Latin texts are constellated with images of dreams. This cultural history dra