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Guest lecturer Rebecca Benefiel on history of graffiti in Pompeii
Washington and Lee University classics Professor Rebecca Benefiel addressed the University of Wisconsin community Thursday in a talk titled, “Ancient Writing and Reading: Culture and communication among the graffiti of Pompeii.” Understanding the role of the over 11,000 pieces of graffito, a singular piece of graffiti, in Pompeii is integral in understanding the “Culture of Communication” in ancient Rome, according to Benefiel. “You’ve got pers…
Messages of love, drawings or insults, these are all inscriptions that littered the walls of the public spaces of the Roman cities. These ancient graffiti, form an indispensable corpus to document the daily lives of the populations, largely invisibility of classical textual sources.
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