Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman worlds / edited by Alex Mullen and Patrick James.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mullen, Alex, 1982- editor.

James, Patrick, 1981- editor.

Cambridge University Press.

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism--Rome.

Multilingualism.

Multilingualism--Greece.

Multilingualism--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Language and languages.

History.

Rome--Languages.

Rome.

Mediterranean Region--Languages--History--To 1500.

Mediterranean Region.

Rome (Empire).

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 389 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

In English; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek and Latin with English translations.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction. Multiple languages, multiple identities / Alex Mullen

Language maintenance and language shift in the Mediterranean world during the Roman Empire / James Clackson

Why did Coptic fail where Aramaic succeeded? Linguistic developments in Egypt and the Near East after the Arab conquest / Arietta Papaconstantinou

Language contact in the pre-Roman and Roman Iberian peninsula : direct and indirect evidence / Oliver Simkin

Complaints of the natives in a Greek dress : the Zenon Archive and the problem of Egyptian interference / Trevor Evans

Linguae sacrae in ancient and medieval sources : an anthropological approach to ritual language / Alderik Blom

Typologies of translation techniques in Greek and Latin: Latin elticis : catelticis = Greek [helktikē : kathektikē] / David Langslow

Greek in early medieval Ireland / Pádraic Moran

An habes linguam Latinam? Non tam bene sapio : views of multilingualism from the early medieval West / Paul Russell

Towards an archaeology of bilingualism : on the study of Greek-Coptic education in late antique Egypt / Scott Bucking

Neo-Punic and Latin inscriptions in Roman North Africa : function and display / Andrew Wilson

Cultures as languages and languages as cultures / Robin Osborne.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-379) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

1139012770

9781139012775

Publisher Number:

99985004776

40021557705

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.