T. V. Evans / D. D. Obbink (Hrsg.)

Language of the Papyri

Herausgeber: Evans, T V; Obbink, D D

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Produktbeschreibung

The modern rediscovery of the Greek and Latin papyri from Egypt has transformed our knowledge of the ancient world. We cannot, however, make the same claim in the specific area of language study. Although important studies of the language of the papyri have appeared sporadically over the past century, we are still dealing today with a linguistic resource of extraordinary richness which has hardly begun to be explored. Every scrap of papyrus and every ostracon (potsherd) or tablet unearthed has the potential to change some aspect of the way we think about the Greek and Latin languages. This book demonstrate that potential, by gathering together essays from seventeen scholars who present a variety of perspectives and methodological approaches. The Language of the Papyri charts current directions of international research, and will also provide a stimulus for future work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199237081
• ISBN-10: 0199237085
• Artikelnr.: 25045224

Autorenporträt

T. V. Evans is Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, Sydney. D. D. Obbink is Tutor in Greek Literature, Christ Church, and University Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: T. V. Evans: Introduction
* I. Linguistic Change and Diversity
* 2: J. A. L. Lee: Auxiliary thelo
* 3: W. Clarysse: Linguistic Diversity in the Archive of the Engineers
Kleon and Theodoros
* 4: T. V. Evans: Identifying the Language of the Individual in the
Zenon Archive
* 5: R. Luiselli: Authorial Revision of Linguistic Style in Greek
Papyrus Letters and Petitions (AD I-IV)
* 6: M. Leiwo: Imperatives and Other Directives in the Greek Letters
from Mons Claudianus
* 7: M. Depauw: Do Mothers Matter? The Emergence of Matronymics in
Early Roman Egypt
* 8: P. James: Variations in Complementation to Impersonal verba
declarandi in Greek Papyri from the Roman and Byzantine Periods
* 9: P. Kruschwitz: Romanes eunt domus! Linguistic Aspects of the
Sub-Literary Latin in Pompeiian Wall Inscriptions
* 10: H. Halla-aho: Linguistic Varieties and Language Level in Latin
Non-Literary Letters
* II. Language Content
* 11: B. Muhs: Language Change and Personal Names in Early Ptolemaic
Egypt
* 12: I. Rutherford: Bilingualism in Roman Egypt: Exploring the Archive
of Phatres of Narmuthis
* 13: E. Dickey: Latin Influence and Greek Request Formulae
* 14: P. Filos: Greek Papyri and the Coining of Greek-Latin Hybrid
Compounds
* 15: A. Maravela-Solbakk: Vina fictitia from Latin into Greek: The
Evidence of the Papyri
* 16: F. Schironi: Lexical Translations in the Papyri: Koine Greek,
Greek Dialects, and Foreign Languages
* III. General
* 17: S.E. Porter and M. O'Donnell: Building and Examining Linguistic
Phenomena in a Corpus of Representative Papyri