Periodic Reporting for period 3 - EVWRIT (Everyday Writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (I - VIII AD). A Socio-Semiotic Study of Communicative Variation)

Writing in Classical antiquity is perhaps associated most with ‘canonical’ authors such as Homer, Plato and Sophocles. In the dry sands of Egypt, however, thousands of ‘everyday' (non-literary) documents have been preserved, mostly in Greek, ranging from very informal...