Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBLA1; HDDK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 639. . 2017. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Graffiti in Antiquity
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 113828839X
ISBN 13: 9781138288393
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Ancient graffiti - hundreds of thousands of informal, ephemeral texts spanning millennia - offer a patchwork of fragmentary conversations in a variety of languages spread across the Mediterranean world. Cut, painted, inked or traced in charcoal, the surviving graffiti present a layer of lived experience in the ancient world unavailable from other sources. Graffiti in Antiquity reveals how and why the inhabitants of Greece and Rome - men and women and free and enslaved - formulated written and visual messages about themselves and the world around them as graffiti. The sources - drawn from 800 BCE to 600 CE - are examined both within their individual historical, cultural and archaeological contexts and thematically, allowing for an exploration of social identity in the urban society of the ancient world. An analysis of one of the most lively and engaged forms of personal communication and protest, Graffiti in Antiquity introduces a new way of reading sociocultural relationships among ordinary people living in the ancient world.

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Peter Keegan is Senior Lecturer in Roman History at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is author of Gender, Social Identity, and Cultural Practices in Private Latin Inscriptions.

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