Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Networks. Environmental perspectives on ancient communication / by Grant Parker -- Libraries and communication in the ancient world / by Matthew Nicholls -- Communication and Roman long-distance trade / by Taco Terpstra -- Military communication: the example of the classical battlefield / by F.S. Naiden -- Modes. Monuments of the Hittite and neo-Assyrian empires during the late bronze and iron ages / by James F. Osborne -- Communicating with images in the Roman Empire / by Jennifer Trimble -- Musical persuasion in early Greece / by Timothy Power -- Gesture in the ancient Mediterranean world / by Gregory S. Aldrete -- Exercising sympathy in Mesopotamian letters / by Seth Richardson -- Divinities. Messages and the Mesopotamian gods: signals and systematics / by Seth Richardson -- Pilgrimage and communication / by Ian Rutherford -- The inspired voice: enigmatic oracular communication / by Julia Kindt -- Christianity / by Michael Kulikowski -- Engagements. Cross-cultural communication in the Hellenistic Mediterranean and Western and South Asia / by Matthew Canepa -- Cross-cultural communication in Egypt / by J.G. Manning -- Diplomatic communication in the ancient Mediterranean / by Sheila l. Ager -- Coinage and the Roman economy / by Kenneth W. Harl -- Communicating through maps: the Roman case / by Richard Talbert.