MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2012474669
003 DLC
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008 140919s2014 enka 001 0 eng d
010 $a 2012474669
020 $a9781844656073
020 $a1844656071
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn827262036
040 $aBTCTA$beng$cBTCTA$erda$dERASA$dYDXCP$dYBM$dOCLCO$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aGT3912$b.K44 2014
082 04 $a306.4093$223
100 1 $aKeegan, Peter$c(Lecturer in Roman history)
245 10 $aGraffiti in antiquity /$cPeter Keegan.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2014.
300 $axvii, 329 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 319-326) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
520 $aAncient 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.
650 0 $aGraffiti$xHistory.
650 0 $aCivilization, Ancient.