Literacy and 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