Written Space in the Latin West, 200 BC to AD 300

Gareth Sears is lecturer in Roman History at the University of Birmingham, UK.Peter Keegan is a Senior Lecturer in Roman History at Macquarie University, Australia.Ray Laurence is Professor of Roman History and Archaeology at the University of Kent, UK.

• 1. 'Written Space' - Laurence and Sears 2. Writing In Roman Public Space - Corbier 3. Writing In Public Space: The Meaning of Graffiti - Laurence and Senna-Garrafoni 4. The Political Graffiti of the Late Roman Republic - Hillard 5. Slaves and Children in a Roman Villa: Writing and Space in the Villa di San Marco at Stabiae - Laurence, Baldwin and Moulden 6. Convergence and Commentary: Writing at the Locus Celeberrimus -Newsome 7. Reconstructing the Epigraphic Culture of Funerary Space in the Roman City - Keegan 8. Looking at Inscriptions in Roman Baths - Cooley 9. Text, Space, and Movement: Discovering the Platea in Epigraphy - Trifilo 10. Inscribed in the City: How Did Women Enter Written Space? - Hemelrijk 11. Calendars: Time in Written Spaces - Hannah 12. A New Era? The Function of Severan Inscriptions in Africa - Sears 13. The City as Preferred Epigraphic Space: The Case of Aquitania - Esmonde-Cleary 14. Writing Politics in the Western Mediterranean - Revell 15. Afterword - Keegan.

The greatest success of this volume is its attempt to force the reader to think of writing as a concept in toto ... Whilst each individual chapter has a clear merit for the study of that particular place or type of writing, it is the work as a whole that should be viewed as an important contribution to furthering the scholarly discourse on the significance and prevalence of writing in Rome and the West.