The Papyrus Plant along the Nile River As I was reading a paper on the oldest fragment of a Cicero manuscript, I came across a rare refe...

A boy recites a lession to a tutor, 2nd cen. AD A previous post brought attention to the low literacy levels of the Roman world and the...

When reading through The Letters of the Younger Pliny, I came across some comments regarding the bookroll. In one of his letters to Corneliu...

A previous post discussed the importance of reading out a text in the proper manner in elite literate circles of Greco-Roman society. It ...

My Dad pointed me to a reference in a letter of Pliny the Younger to a Virginius Rufus who had been killed by a large bookroll. It was too ...

I have been reading through Richard Bauckham, ed. The Gospel for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,...