Graffiti in Antiquity
“Graffiti in Antiquity” by Peter Keegan, published by Routledge on January 27, 2017, is a comprehensive examination of ancient graffiti, spanning 330 pages. This work delves into the informal and ephemeral texts that have survived from the Mediterranean world, offering insights into the lived experiences of individuals in ancient Greece and Rome. The book explores how various inhabitants, regardless of their social status, expressed themselves through written and visual messages, providing a unique perspective on social identity in urban settings.
Readers will find an analysis of graffiti as a vibrant form of personal communication and protest, revealing the historical, cultural, and archaeological contexts of these artifacts. The text draws from sources dating from 800 BCE to 600 CE, allowing for a thematic exploration of social history and religion. By examining these fragmentary conversations, “Graffiti in Antiquity” presents a new approach to understanding the sociocultural relationships among ordinary people in the ancient world.
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Ancient graffiti – hundreds of thousands of informal, ephemeral texts spanning millennia – offer a patchwork of fragmentary conversations in a variety of languages spread across the Mediterranean world. Cut, painted, inked or traced in charcoal, the surviving graffiti present a layer of lived experience in the ancient world unavailable from other sources. Graffiti in Antiquity reveals how and why the inhabitants of Greece and Rome – men and women and free and enslaved – formulated written and visual messages about themselves and the world around them as graffiti. The sources – drawn from 800 BCE to 600 CE – are examined both within their individual historical, cultural and archaeological contexts and thematically, allowing for an exploration of social identity in the urban society of the ancient world. An analysis of one of the most lively and engaged forms of personal communication and protest, Graffiti in Antiquity introduces a new way of reading sociocultural relationships among ordinary people living in the ancient world.
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