Redefining the Standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism

CHIARA MONACO, Robert Machado, Eleni Bozia (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

342 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-68299-3 (ISBN)

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Brings together scholars of Attic, the Koine, and Atticism to better understand the connections between these varieties. Represents a key moment in the culturo-linguistic analysis of Atticism. Contains key breakthroughs in the linguistic analysis of Classical Attic, the Koine, and Atticism.

Scholarship surrounding the standard varieties of Ancient Greek (Attic, the Koine, and Atticistic Greek) focused from its beginnings until relatively recently on determining fixed uniformities or differences between them. This collection of essays advocates for understanding them as interconnected and continuously evolving and suggests viewing them as living organisms shaped by their speakers and texts. The authors propose approaches that integrate linguistics, sociolinguistics, and literary studies to explore how speakers navigate linguistic norms and social dynamics, leading to innovations and reshaping of standards. Each contribution challenges the dichotomy between standards and deviations, suggesting that studying linguistic diversity through socio-literary interconnectedness can enrich our understanding of language history and cultural wealth.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	17.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation ; 6
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	719 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-68299-6 / 9004682996
ISBN-13	978-90-04-68299-3 / 9789004682993
Zustand	Neuware