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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4959613, member: 99456"]Apologies for my rudeness, perhaps just some jealousy kept me from the genuine observation that you shared some very nice coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Here's one point of view on the subject - although I do find the difference proposed to be somewhat shocking (and maybe not reasonable to compare):</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">"I have suggested in my book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Literacy-William-V-Harris/dp/0674033809/ref=sr_1_2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Literacy-William-V-Harris/dp/0674033809/ref=sr_1_2" rel="nofollow">Ancient Literacy</a> (Harvard, 1989) that the available statistics of literacy in early-modern and modern times are of great importance for any inquiry into Greek and Roman literacy. I do not suggest that such figures can be transferred in any simplistic way to the ancient world. What I do maintain is that, if they are studied carefully, they very strongly suggest the numerical range within which Greek and Roman literacy is likely to have fallen. The likely range for the overall illiteracy level of the Roman Empire under the principate is almost certain to have been above 90%. Even the most advanced cities (which, I think, means the Greek cities in the fourth to first centuries B.C.) the level of illiteracy is to be sought, if we include women and country people, far above 50%."</font></p><p><font size="3">- Harris, W. (1990). <a href="http:// https://www.jstor.org/stable/494208" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http:// https://www.jstor.org/stable/494208" rel="nofollow">Graeco-Roman Literacy and Comparative Method</a>. <i>The History Teacher,</i> <i>24</i>(1), 93-98. doi:10.2307/494208</font></p><p><br /></p><p>I will also add, with no reasonable basis for my argument, no supporting evidence, and an attempt to distract from my weak arguments with this coin of L. Cassius Longinus, AR Denarius. Rome, 63 BC:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1192251[/ATTACH] </p><p>that there must have been a higher level of literacy in the Roman republic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4959613, member: 99456"]Apologies for my rudeness, perhaps just some jealousy kept me from the genuine observation that you shared some very nice coins :) Here's one point of view on the subject - although I do find the difference proposed to be somewhat shocking (and maybe not reasonable to compare): [SIZE=3]"I have suggested in my book [URL='https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Literacy-William-V-Harris/dp/0674033809/ref=sr_1_2']Ancient Literacy[/URL] (Harvard, 1989) that the available statistics of literacy in early-modern and modern times are of great importance for any inquiry into Greek and Roman literacy. I do not suggest that such figures can be transferred in any simplistic way to the ancient world. What I do maintain is that, if they are studied carefully, they very strongly suggest the numerical range within which Greek and Roman literacy is likely to have fallen. The likely range for the overall illiteracy level of the Roman Empire under the principate is almost certain to have been above 90%. Even the most advanced cities (which, I think, means the Greek cities in the fourth to first centuries B.C.) the level of illiteracy is to be sought, if we include women and country people, far above 50%." - Harris, W. (1990). [URL='http:// https://www.jstor.org/stable/494208']Graeco-Roman Literacy and Comparative Method[/URL]. [I]The History Teacher,[/I] [I]24[/I](1), 93-98. doi:10.2307/494208[/SIZE] I will also add, with no reasonable basis for my argument, no supporting evidence, and an attempt to distract from my weak arguments with this coin of L. Cassius Longinus, AR Denarius. Rome, 63 BC: [ATTACH=full]1192251[/ATTACH] that there must have been a higher level of literacy in the Roman republic.[/QUOTE]
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