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Who wrote the administrative documents of Athens? Was literacy extensive in ancient Attika? Were inscriptions, those on stone or pieces of pottery (ostraka), written, read and comprehended by common people? In this book Anna Missiou gives full consideration to these questions of crucial importance for understanding the quality of Athenian democracy and culture. She explores how the Kleisthenic reforms provided new contexts and new subject matter for writing. It promoted the exchange of reliable information between the demes, the tribes and the urban centre on particular important issues, including the mobilization of the army and the political organization of the citizen body. Through a close analysis of the process through which Athenian politicians were ostracised and a fresh examination of the involvement of common citizens in the Council of 500, Missiou undermines the current orthodoxy that literacy was not widespread among Athenians. Literacy underwrote the effective functioning of Athenian democracy.

Neuware - Der Faszikel enthält die 483 in Athen und Attika gefundenen sog. Fluchtafeln: auf Bleitäfelchen geschriebene Bindezauber (katádesmoi, defixiones), mit denen die anonymen Verfasser Gegner und Konkurrenten in juristischen, kommerziellen, sportlichen oder auch amourösen Händeln Schaden zufügen wollten. Gottheiten der Unterwelt wie Hermes und Persephone, Dämonen und magische Kräfte werden aufgefordert, diese Personen zu sich hinabzuziehen und ihre Glieder und Seelen so zu fesseln, so dass sie außer Gefecht gesetzt sind und Schaden erleiden. Die Fluchtafeln erlauben einen einzigartigen Blick in die Mentalität antiker Menschen aus den verschiedensten Schichten der Gesellschaft. Alle Texte wurden nach aufwändiger Restaurierung an den Originalen in Athen und in verschiedenen Museen Europas neu gelesen und in genauer Umzeichnung und digitalen Photos dokumentiert. Ausführliche Indices erschließen diese besonderen Zeugnisse aus der faszinierenden Welt der antiken Magie.

Who wrote the administrative documents of Athens? Was literacy extensive in ancient Attika? Were inscriptions, those on stone or pieces of pottery (ostraka), written, read and comprehended by common people? In this book Anna Missiou gives full consideration to these questions of crucial importance for understanding the quality of Athenian democracy and culture. She explores how the Kleisthenic reforms provided new contexts and new subject matter for writing. It promoted the exchange of reliable information between the demes, the tribes and the urban centre on particular important issues, including the mobilization of the army and the political organization of the citizen body. Through a close analysis of the process through which Athenian politicians were ostracised and a fresh examination of the involvement of common citizens in the Council of 500, Missiou undermines the current orthodoxy that literacy was not widespread among Athenians. Literacy underwrote the effective functioning of Athenian democracy.