Bibliograph

Graffiti in antiquity, Peter Keegan

Type

Label

Graffiti in antiquity, Peter Keegan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Graffiti in antiquity

Oclc number

827262036

Responsibility statement

Peter Keegan

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Modern approaches to ancient graffiti -- I. Techniques -- Methods, types, contexts -- II. Traditions -- History -- Literature -- Art and architecture -- III. Beliefs -- Religion -- Magic -- Mythology -- IV. Lifestyles -- Politics -- Sport -- Commerce -- Sexuality -- Conclusion

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