Anna Missiou is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Crete. Her previous publications include The Subversive Oratory of Andokides: Politics, Ideology and Decision-Making in Democratic Athens (1992).
Introduction: background, concepts and issues
1. The geography of literacy
2. Literacy and political ethos: the institution of ostracism
3. Literacy through intermediaries: I. the ostraka
4. Literacy through intermediaries: II. stone inscriptions
5. Athenian literacy in its sociopolitical context
Conclusions: literacy and Athenian democracy
Appendix I: studying the ostraka: technical difficulties and personal assumptions
Appendix II: for an early date for the institution of the prytaneis
Appendix III: literacy beyond the urban centre: councillors-prytaneis from remote demes.
