'Ancient Graffiti in Context' brings together papers by historians and archaeologists using graffiti as evidence to explore the Greek and Roman worlds. Illumina

Ancient graffiti - hundreds of thousands of informal, ephemeral texts spanning millennia - offer a patchwork of fragmentary conversations in a variety of langua

For ancient societies, graffiti are personal expressions otherwise rare in the archaeological and historical record. This volume is focused around a group of an

For most people the mention of graffiti conjures up notions of subversion, defacement, and underground culture. Yet, the term was coined by classical archaeolog