Literacy and democracy in fifth-century Athens/
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Cambridge; New York:
Cambridge University Press,
c2011
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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.