Roman Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity

Guardians of a Changing Language

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-761197-5 (ISBN)

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This collection of essays explores how Roman scholars and grammarians addressed different kinds of linguistic diversity within the Roman Republic and Empire. It is a follow-up to Robert Kaster's Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity.

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