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Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History
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by R.S. Bagnall
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168 pages, 8 plates, notes, bibliography etc. 1995. The ancient Mediterranean world brought to us by Herodotus, Thucydides and Tacitus is one of politics, war and the power elite of Greece and Rome. There was another ancient world, in which ordinary people made a living, sold land, ran their towns and sued one another. This is the world that the papyri bring to life; this book is about how they do so.
9780415093774
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