Beschreibung:
This second edition of Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History continues to offer students and researchers of the ancient world a critical resource in navigating how to use these ancient texts in their research.
List of figures; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Plates; Introduction: history and papyri; 1 The culture of papyrus; 2 Ancient and modern choices in documentation; 3 Particular and general; 4 Time and place; 5 Quantification; 6 Asking questions; 7 The digital revolution; 8 Continuity and renewal; Works cited in the text and notes; General bibliography; Index of subjects; Index of texts cited