CLAS 2020 Midterm: Best Study Guide Test One
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Sources: we don"t have direct contact with the ancient roman civilization, so it"s difficult to find out what it was really like, material basis of the civilization is threatened by time (at least 1500 years before us, example: ancient paintings have almost completely disappeared, everything we know about the ancient world is being mediated through the perspective of someone. Early history: first 3 centuries of rome have by far the most inscriptions on stones, papyrus plants used as paper, grown in egypt, a very linear sort of reading (it"s on a horizontal scroll, you have to scroll right to read, we have the remains of the garbage dumps of many papyrus papers that we found outside the nile river, the vast amounts that exist are documentary texts (account books, private letters, petitions to governor, etc. , only a small amount of writing in a small area (egypt).
