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| Author | : Mary B. Woods |
| Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0761372725 |
Did you know that people first used road signs more than 2,000 years ago? Did you know that Ancient Rome had its own postal service? Did you know that Egyptian writers used flakes of limestone for scrap paper? Pens, storytelling, alphabets—communication technology is as old as human society itself. The first humans on Earth used simple communication tools. They painted on cave walls with twigs and animal fur. They carved simple pictures into bones and rocks. Over the centuries, ancient peoples improved the ways they communicated. People in the ancient Middle East kept records on clay tablets. The ancient Chinese made paper from wood pulp. The ancient Greeks and ancient Mayans thought of different ways to design books. So what kinds of tools and techniques did ancient people use? How did writing systems improve over time? And how did ancient communication set the stage for our own modern communication technology? Learn more in Ancient Communication Technology.
| Author | : Michael Woods |
| Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 2000-01-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780822529965 |
Examines ancient methods of communication in the Middle East, India, China, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Mesoamerica.
| Author | : Kyle H. Keimer |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2017-09-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1351797034 |
It is the quintessential nature of humans to communicate with each other. Good communications, bad communications, miscommunications, or no communications at all have driven everything from world events to the most mundane of interactions. At the broadest level, communication entails many registers and modes: verbal, iconographic, symbolic, oral, written, and performed. Relationships and identities – real and fictive – arise from communication, but how and why were they effected and how should they be understood? The chapters in this volume address some of the registers and modes of communication in the ancient Near East. Particular focuses are imperial and court communications between rulers and ruled, communications intended for a given community, and those between families and individuals. Topics cover a broad chronological period (3rd millennium BC to 1st millennium AD), and geographic range (Egypt to Israel and Mesopotamia) encapsulating the extraordinarily diverse plurality of human experience. This volume is deliberately interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, and its broad scope provides wide insights and a holistic understanding of communication applicable today. It is intended for both the scholar and readers with interests in ancient Near Eastern history and Biblical studies, communications (especially communications theory), and sociolinguistics.
| Author | : Hazel Richardson |
| Publisher | : Life in the Ancient World |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780778717409 |
Describes the different forms of communication in ancient civilizations, from the first forms of writing to education, ancient books, formal languages, and communication between civilizations.
| Author | : Michele Kennerly |
| Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2018-02-13 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0817359044 |
An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: ancient rhetoric and digitally networked communication
| Author | : David Hamidović |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2019-05-20 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004399291 |
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication. Edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah Bowen Savant, it gathers together the contributions of seventeen scholars involved in Biblical, Early Jewish and Christian studies. The volume attests to the spreading of digital humanities in these fields and presents fundamental analysis of the rise of visual culture as well as specific test-cases concerning ancient manuscripts. Sophisticated visualisation tools, stylometric analysis, teaching and visual data, epigraphy and visualisation belong notably to the varied overview presented in the volume.
| Author | : Theresa Enos |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 828 |
| Release | : 2013-10-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1135816069 |
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Robert Tarbell Oliver |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 1971 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The author explores questions which are answerable only as oral communication is considered in relation to philosophy and social customs. An examination of the relationship between culture and rhetoric, East and West, opens the book. The rhetorical milieu of India, its philosophy, social system, and uses of speech, leads to a probing of the caste system and speech of the Brahmins, Hinduism and other pre-Buddhistic rhetorical theories, including a study of the Upanishads and forms of debate, are considered along with the influence of Gautama Buddha. The rhetorical milieu of China is examined, together with analysis of the earliest classic, an anthology of political speeches. Chinese rhetoric of etiquette is compared with Hindu caste rhetoric. The rhetorical systems of Confucius and Mencius are evaluated in detail, after which the motivational rhetorics of Mo-Tze and Hsüntze are examined. Han Fei-Tzu's totalitarian rhetoric is contrasted with the Taoist rhetorics of Lao-Tzu and Chuang-Tzu. The book concludes with a chapter on characteristics of Asian rhetoric, where the author compares rhetorics of East and West.--From publishers' description.
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| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 411 |
| Release | : 2021-09-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004466665 |
This volume features an international group of experts on the literature, philosophy, and religion of the ancient Mediterranean world. Each paper makes a unique contribution, and together, the papers draw an engaging portrait of the idea of “repetition.”
| Author | : Martine Diepenbroek |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2023-11-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 135028128X |
This book offers a comprehensive review and reassessment of the classical sources describing the cryptographic Spartan device known as the scytale. Challenging the view promoted by modern historians of cryptography which look at the scytale as a simple and impractical 'stick', Diepenbroek argues for the scytale's deserved status as a vehicle for secret communication in the ancient world. By way of comparison, Diepenbroek demonstrates that the cryptographic principles employed in the Spartan scytale show an encryption and coding system that is no less complex than some 20th-century transposition ciphers. The result is that, contrary to the accepted point of view, scytale encryption is as complex and secure as other known ancient ciphers. Drawing on salient comparisons with a selection of modern transposition ciphers (and their historical predecessors), the reader is provided with a detailed overview and analysis of the surviving classical sources that similarly reveal the potential of the scytale as an actual cryptographic and steganographic tool in ancient Sparta in order to illustrate the relative sophistication of the Spartan scytale as a practical device for secret communication. This helps to establish the conceptual basis that the scytale would, in theory, have offered its ancient users a secure method for secret communication over long distances.
