Table of Contents

List of figures; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Plates; Introduction: history and papyri; 1 The culture of papyrus; 2 Ancient and modern choices in documentation; 3 Particular and general; 4 Time and place; 5 Quantification; 6 Asking questions; 7 The digital revolution; 8 Continuity and renewal; Works cited in the text and notes; General bibliography; Index of subjects; Index of texts cited

About the Author

Roger S. Bagnall is Jay Professor of Greek and Latin and Professor of History, emeritus, at Columbia University, USA, and Professor of Ancient History and Leon Levy Director, emeritus, at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, USA. His other publications include Egypt in Late Antiquity (1993), The Demography of Roman Egypt (1994), and Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East (2011).