Scribes of Rome - A Cultural and Social History of the Scribae

List of contents

1. Imagining the Roman scriba; 2. The human archive; 3. The attendant; 4. The pröteer; 5. The parvenu; 6. The Roman scriba reimagined; Appendix The Roman scribae; Bibliography; General index; Index locorum.

About the author

Benjamin Hartmann is a former Research and Teaching Assistant in Ancient History at the University of Zurich and currently works as an independent researcher. His research focuses on the role of literacy in the ancient world, ancient cultural and social history and Latin epigraphy. He has mainly published on writing on everyday objects and small finds from the Roman world.

Summary

Explores the lives of Rome's public scribes, the scribae. In analysing a wide range of source material, it examines the cultural significance of these literate experts and their work and its implication for their position in Roman society and the state.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Hartmann, Benjamin (Universitat Zurich) Hartmann
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781108713740
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71374-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE