(August 1, 2016 at 5:29 pm)abaris Wrote:(August 1, 2016 at 5:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I imagine that some people had more of an affinity for literacy than others but that is still true today, is it not?
But what was there to read for an ordinary citizen? Scrolls didn't come cheap. But there's one pointer to a broader base of literacy. The graffitis at Pompeji. Given their overall nature, they obviously weren't written by savants but by ordinary folk. Apart from the ones advertising the qualities of certain whores, my favorite is obviously composed by a shop owner threatening the next person to take a shit at his doorstep to be fucked up the ass.
Scrolls may be expensive, but what about ink on wooden shavings?
