Many of them served as glosses to original hieratic and demotic equivalents.
Some of the hieratic copies contain demotic notations, but no purely demotic form of the text has been found.
The result was the first extensive body of literature written in the demotic dialect, a move whose influence on subsequent writers can not be overstated.
The actress is thus literally owned by her immediate public, but owned also by a vast demotic consumership whom she might never encounter in the theatre.
On the contrary, it has long been a city engulfed in writing, as well as in a swirl of demotic myths, transmitted in written as well as oral form.
Or could there be both, in a continuum from the consistent (and elitist) through the inconsistent (and demotic), to the 'illiterate', 'broken', and 'fractured'?
These visual statements propelled the idea of evolution out of the arcane realms of learned societies into the ordinary world of humor, newspapers, and demotic literature.
While they overlapped with the ideas of elite radicalism they were more demotic in origin and formulation and acted as an ideological bridge between the educated minority and the masses.
