Ebook: Ancient graffiti in context

Ancient graffiti in context : introduction / J.A. Baird and Claire Taylor -- Dialogues of graffiti in the House of the Four Styles at Pompeii / Rebecca R. Benefiel -- The graffiti of Dura-Europos : a contextual approach / J.A. Baird -- Identifying children's graffiti in Roman Campania : a developmental psychological approach / Katherine V. Huntley -- Graffiti and the epigraphic habit : creating communities and writing alternate histories in classical Attica / Claire Taylor -- Transcripts of dissent? Political graffiti and elite ideology under the principate / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi -- The materiality of graffiti : socialising a Lekythos in Pherai / Katerina Volioti -- Egyptian 'inscriptions' and Greek 'graffiti' at El Kanais in the Egyptian Eastern Desert / Rachel Mairs -- Blogging Rome : graffiti as speech-act and cultural discourse / Peter Keegan -- Graffiti in Aphrodisias : images -- texts -- contexts / Angelos Chaniotis.;'Ancient Graffiti in Context' brings together papers by historians and archaeologists using graffiti as evidence to explore the Greek and Roman worlds. Illuminating such varied topics as ancient emotions, Roman children and military communities, this book demonstrates the importance of this undervalued form of evidence.