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  • 8 - Italic

  • Edited by Thomas Olander, University of Copenhagen
  • Book:
    The Indo-European Language Family
    Published online:
    15 September 2022
    Print publication:
    22 September 2022, pp 114-134
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  • Summary

    This chapter examines the distinctive innovations uniting Latin, the Sabellic languages and Venetic.

  • Education and Literacy in Ancient Italy: Evidence from the Dedications to the Goddess Reitia

  • Katherine McDonald
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Roman Studies / Volume 109 / November 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 August 2019, pp. 131-159
    Print publication:
    November 2019

  • This article discusses the votive dedications to the goddess Reitia at the sanctuary of Este-Baratella (Veneto) as evidence for the acquisition of literacy in Italy c. 350–150 b.c. These dedications, which take the form of bronze writing-tablets and styluses, are inscribed with Venetic dedicatory formulae, abecedaria and other writing exercises. This article shows how these texts function as writing exercises — some of the earliest evidence of elementary education methods in Italy. Many of the votives were dedicated by women, and this article argues that women were active participants in literacy and education in this period. It also sets the dedications in their Italian and Mediterranean context by comparing them to votive and funerary deposits of abecedaria from across Italy and the ancient world.