Literacy and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens

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Classical Antiquity Studies Classical Studies and Philology Classical Philosophy and Thought

Abstract

Introduction: background, concepts and issues 1. The geography of literacy 2. Literacy and political ethos: the institution of ostracism 3. Literacy through intermediaries: I. the ostraka 4. Literacy through intermediaries: II. stone inscriptions 5. Athenian literacy in its sociopolitical context Conclusions: literacy and Athenian democracy Appendix I: studying the ostraka: technical difficulties and personal assumptions Appendix II: for an early date for the institution of the prytaneis Appendix III: literacy beyond the urban centre: councillors-prytaneis from remote demes.

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1952Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum

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