Introduction; 1. Embodied Persons: The Bodies, Status, Gender, and Age of Literate Workers; 2. The Mechanics of Use: The Materials, Education, and Practicalities of Ancient Literate Workers; 3. Multipurpose Persons: Literate Workers as Translators, Interpreters, Emissaries, and Informants; 4. Prosthetic Sons and Disabled Fathers: Disability, Augmentation, and the Christian Secretary; 5. The Works of Us: Prolific Dictation and the Mirage of the Great Commentator; 6. Pathway to the Episcopate: Secretarial Work as a Precursor to an Office; 7. Invisibility, Critical Fabulation, and Recovering Literate Workers in Early Christian History; Bibliography.