Olivia Elder, Alex Mullen

The Language of Roman Letters

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781108480161
• ISBN-10: 1108480160
• Artikelnr.: 56711992

Autorenporträt

Olivia Elder holds a CRASSH/British School at Rome Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, having recently completed her doctorate 'Language and the Politics of Roman Identity' at Peterhouse, Cambridge. She is an ancient historian with particular interests in bilingualism, epigraphy, Roman identity and epistolography.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Language and life in letters
2. A Roman conversation? Code-switching in diachronic context
3. Republic of letters: the politics of Cicero's Epistolary Code-Switching
4. Imperial relations: Greek and the lingua Romana of Fronto and friends
5. The language of letters and beyond: Greek in Suetonius' biographies
6. Weaving together the threads: epistolary connections.