Redefining the Standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism

Chiara Monaco, Ph.D. (2021) University of Cambridge, is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Flanders Research Foundation at Ghent University. Robert Machado is a bye-fellow in Classics at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Eleni Bozia, Ph.D. (2009), Dr. phil. (2018), University of Florida, is an Associate Professor of Classics and Digital Humanities. She has published extensively on linguistic and cultural diversity in Imperial literature. She is the Associate Director of the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project and the Head of the Data-Driven Humanities Research Group. Contributors are: Klaas Bentein, Winnie Smith, Chiara Monaco, Luuk Huitink, Tim Rood, Gabriella Rubulotta, Enrico Cerroni, Robert Crellin, Anna Novokhatko, Robert Machado, Eleni Bozia, Cressida Ryan.

Foreword

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations and Tables

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Chiara Monaco, Robert Machado and Eleni Bozia



Part 1: Setting the Standards

1 Koines, Standards, and What’s behind Them: Capturing Linguistic Norms in Greek Official Writing

 Klaas Bentein



2 Orthographic Variation beyond Spelling Mistakes: Tremas and Adscripts in 194 Greek Papyrus Letters

 Winnie Smith



3 Menander and the Alexandrian Dialect: the Atticists’ Perspective on Menander’s Language

 Chiara Monaco



Part 2: Fashioning Language through Literature and Vice Versa

4 Xenophon, Professional Military Vocabulary, and the Formation of the Literary Koine

 Luuk Huitink and Tim Rood



5 Forerunner of the Koine or Attic Bee? The Reception of Xenophon in the Imperial Age

 Gabriella Rubulotta



6 Searching for Linguistic Standards in 2 Maccabees

 Enrico Cerroni



Part 3: Socio-Political Aspects of Language

7 Eupolis fr. 99, 25 PCG: Imposing Standards on Stage?

 Anna A. Novokhatko



8 The Dual in Aristophanes and Late Fifth-, Early Fourth-Century Attic

 Robert Machado



9 Negotiating Jewish Identity through the (Non-)inflection of Personal Names: Evidence from the Greek of the New Testament

 Robert Crellin



10 Politics of Atticism: Prefiguring New Imperial Citizenship

 Eleni Bozia



11 Teaching New Testament Greek: What, and How?

 Cressida Ryan



Index