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“A curious Roman “literacy triangle” centered on three groups: the legions, easily the most literate mass institution in the late Republic; the Christians; and most bizarrely, the slaves—particularly Greek slaves—who did much of Rome’s writing, and even its reading.”
― Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet
― Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet
“all democratic societies based on the rule of law, on the Tinkerbell Principle: it functioned only so long as its participants believed in it.48”
― Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet
― Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet
“the stereotypical wealthy, swaggering “ugly Roman” soon became an object of Greek hatred.”
― Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet
― Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet
“Of all the communications technologies discussed in this book, radio and television are the most hierarchical; no preceding media could reach so many people so instantaneously and with so little feedback in the opposite direction.”
― Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet
― Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet
“In short, the Romans conquered most of their known world as much with the deeply institutionalized pen as with the sword, shield, and catapult.”
― Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet
― Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet
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