Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds
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Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds

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Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds

About this book

Through words and images employed both by individuals and by a range of communities across the Graeco-Roman worlds, this book explores the complexity of multilingual representations of identity. Starting with the advent of literacy in the Mediterranean, it encompasses not just the Greek and Roman empires but also the transformation of the Graeco-Roman world under Islam and within the medieval mind. By treating a range of materials, contexts, languages, and temporal and political boundaries, the contributors consider points of cross-cultural similarity and difference and the changing linguistic landscape of East and West from antiquity into the medieval period. Insights from contemporary multilingualism theory and interdisciplinary perspectives are employed throughout to exploit the material fully.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. MULTILINGUALISM IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLDS
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Tables
  8. Notes on contributors
  9. Preface and acknowledgements
  10. Abbreviations
  11. CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Multiple languages, multiple identities
  12. CHAPTER 2 Language maintenance and language shift in the Mediterranean world during the Roman Empire
  13. CHAPTER 3 Why did Coptic fail where Aramaic succeeded?
  14. CHAPTER 4 Language contact in the pre-Roman and Roman Iberian peninsula
  15. CHAPTER 5 Complaints of the natives in a Greek dress
  16. CHAPTER 6 Linguae sacrae in ancient and medieval sources
  17. CHAPTER 7 Typologies of translation techniques in Greek and Latin
  18. CHAPTER 8 Greek in early medieval Ireland
  19. CHAPTER 9 An habes linguam Latinam? Non tam bene sapio
  20. CHAPTER 10 Towards an archaeology of bilingualism
  21. CHAPTER 11 Neo-Punic and Latin inscriptions in Roman North Africa
  22. CHAPTER 12 Cultures as languages and languages as cultures
  23. Bibliography
  24. General Index