{"id":93437,"date":"2025-05-04T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=93437"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:01:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T03:01:28","slug":"everyday-life-in-the-roman-empire-culture-and-literacy-in-the-roman-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/05\/04\/everyday-life-in-the-roman-empire-culture-and-literacy-in-the-roman-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Life in the Roman Empire &#8211; Culture and Literacy in the Roman Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wSrrulCho0M?si=PXxry6yq0OwkQBWr\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>seangabb<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 28 Dec 2024<\/p>\n<p>This is the eighth video in my series on Everyday Life in the Roman Empire. In this, I wander about at the beginning, with talk of poetry and philosophy, before realising that the real theme is the extent of ancient literacy. The whole of the remainder is given over to this, and how it enabled a literary civilisation wholly different from our own.<\/p>\n<p>Introduction \u2013 00:00:00<br \/>\nOur perceptions of culture in the Ancient world \u2013 00:01:40<br \/>\nVirgil \u2013 00:03:45<br \/>\nCatullus \u2013 00:05:17<br \/>\nPhilosophy in Rome \u2013 00:06:23<br \/>\nThe Romans and Stoicism \u2013 00:08:40<br \/>\nThe Romans and Epicureanism \u2013 00:10:27<br \/>\nPretty silver things from Roman Britain \u2013 00:16:25<br \/>\nBroad-based cultural participation in the Ancient World? \u2013 00:19:26<br \/>\nThe Ancient World: a largely illiterate civilisation (no spectacles) \u2013 00:28:27<br \/>\nThe Ancient World: a largely illiterate civilisation (expensive education, expensive books) \u2013 00:35:40<br \/>\nThe Ancient World: a largely illiterate civilisation (economic imperatives) \u2013 00:42:35<br \/>\nThe Ancient World: a largely illiterate civilisation (expensive writing materials) \u2013 00:44:44<br \/>\nThe Ancient World: a largely illiterate civilisation (difficulties of reading) \u2013 00:49:16<br \/>\nThe Ancient memory \u2013 00:53:14<br \/>\nThe primacy of oral communication \u2013 00:55:23<br \/>\nThe Ancient World: a largely illiterate civilisation (the Second Sophistic and linguistic change) \u2013 00:59:53<br \/>\nBibliography \u2013 01:08:10<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you have enjoyed this lecture, its author might enjoy a bag of coffee, or some other small token of esteem: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0ZjR1BPXzlMQ2JtSG83bHhSVXdyQ0ZXTXVkZ3xBQ3Jtc0trUDRDNFpVUzZnb1BEUk5scHc0ZGxkZTN0UTM1dTlpaUtUekF6alBzRWkyVGJfYzBxWl9KcXVOSlBoUy1RWTF5WHZJTHc1ZFhqam0tZXMzT3d3Tlo3d2t0cWUzM3lHWFF6dXBQWThrVlFSVDY2ZHRmaw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fhz%2Fwishlist%2Fls%2F3HSH7EF410352%3Fref_%3Dwl_share&#038;v=0MSWw2hBl2I\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/hz\/wishlist\/&#8230;<\/a> (The coffee percolator would be particularly welcome as the author&#8217;s wife has banned him from buying it himself) <\/p>\n<p>Books by Sean Gabb: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbEsyX2k1SGJidlNzRmtBbm5MaVVUZXBoMVlmZ3xBQ3Jtc0tuMjNDdGd4T2xaTmZacW9IaUp3RWJoMk1lZXl0SUtXWGRKQ1l5NXVLTnEzeUp2T0FTNTBfdTFWMDVzakZrNHVkbzNRLU5MMWdJSWFUTUs4MjRaa2N2S1RJdk5DN3lYRVZzbzhMdGZHcHdNUXBESXo5WQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fkindle-dbs%2Fentity%2Fauthor%2FB0034Q418E%3F_encoding%3DUTF8%26node%3D266239%26offset%3D0%26pageSize%3D12%26searchAlias%3Dstripbooks%26sort%3Dauthor-sidecar-rank%26page%3D1%26langFilter%3Ddefault%23formatSelectorHeader&#038;v=0MSWw2hBl2I\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/kindle-dbs\/e&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>His historical novels (under the pen name \u201cRichard Blake\u201d): https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Richard-Blak&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seangabb Published 28 Dec 2024 This is the eighth video in my series on Everyday Life in the Roman Empire. In this, I wander about at the beginning, with talk of poetry and philosophy, before realising that the real theme is the extent of ancient literacy. The whole of the remainder is given over to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7],"tags":[262,1073,294,576,1343,1468,1353],"class_list":["post-93437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","tag-culture","tag-epicureanism","tag-literature","tag-philosophy","tag-romanempire","tag-seangabb","tag-stoicism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oj3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93438,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93437\/revisions\/93438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}