Keegan, Peter (Lecturer in Roman history)
London New York : Routledge, 2014.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-326) and index.
- 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.
- 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.
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