Roman Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-761197-5 (ISBN)
Thirty years ago Robert Kaster's Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity investigated ancient Greco-Roman grammarians as social agents within their social and cultural context. This collection of twelve essays develops that line of inquiry by focusing on one dimension of their activity: how Roman grammarians - as well as scholars and intellectuals more broadly - described, made sense of, and resisted linguistic diversity within the Roman republic and empire. This includes social and diachronic variety within Latin as well as multilingual contact with Greek and other Mediterranean languages. The essays cover five centuries of Latin reflection on language, from Varro to the fifth or sixth century CE. The book concludes with an autobiographical Epilogue by Robert Kaster about the origins of Guardians of Language and updates to the prosopography of known ancient grammarians found in Guardians.
Adam Gitner is a lexicographer at the Thesaurus linguae Latinae (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and docent in historical linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Short Title Abbreviations
Preface
Adam Gitner
Introduction
1. Counterfeit and Coinage: Gresham's Law and the Grammarian
James E. G. Zetzel
Part I: Varro
2. Varro the Conservative?
Katharina Volk
3. Varro and the Sabine Language in the De lingua Latina
Wolfgang D. C. de Melo
4. Varro's Word Trees
Andreas T. Zanker
Part II: Professional Grammarians
5. The Use of Greek in Diomedes' Ars grammatica
Bruno Rochette
6. The Grammarian Consentius on Language Change and Variation
Tommaso Mari
7. Antiquus = squalidus? Pompeius' Attitude towards Antiquity
Anna Zago
8. T(w)o Be or Not T(w)o Be: The dualis numerus according to Latin Grammarians up to the Early Middle Ages
Tim Denecker
9. Anonymous Grammatical Scholarship: Insights from an Annotated Juvenal Codex from Egypt
Alessandro Garcea and Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
Part III: Scholars and Intellectuals
10. Civic Metaphors for Lexical Borrowing from Seneca to Gellius
Adam Gitner
11. Grammar and Grammarians, Linguistic and Social Change from Gellius to Macrobius
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
12. Language Variation and Grammatical Theory in Roman Legal Texts
Rolando Ferri
Epilogue
The (Very Fragile) Origins of Guardians of Language
Robert A. Kaster
Prosopographical Addenda to Guardians of Language
Robert A. Kaster
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Notable Passages
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.11.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 16, B/W |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 224 x 157 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-761197-4 / 0197611974 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-761197-5 / 9780197611975 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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