The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Papaconstantinou, Arietta

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The wealth of documentary sources preserved by Egypt's papyri makes the country a privileged observation ground for the study of ancient multilingualism. Papyri capture more linguistic registers than other ancient and medieval sources, ranging as they do from very private documents not meant by their author to be read by future generations, to official documents produced by the administration, which are preserved in their original form. This collection of essays aims to make this wealth better known, as well as to give a diachronic view of multilingual practices in Egypt from the arrival of the Greeks as a political force in the country with Alexander the Great, to the beginnings of Abbasid rule when Greek, and slowly also Coptic, receded from the documentary record.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351885379
• Artikelnr.: 49377153

Autorenporträt

Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou is lecturer at the Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, and Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Arietta Papaconstantinou
Linguistic identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt, Sofia Torallas Tovar
Bilingual papyrological archives, Willy Clarysse
Coptic or Greek? Bilingualism in the papyri, Sarah J. Clackson
Multilingual archives and documents in post-conquest Egypt, Petra Sijpesteijn
What's in a sign? Translating filiation in the demotic magical papyri, Jacco Dieleman
Early Coptic epistolography, Malcolm Choat
Toujours honneur au grec? ÃEUR propos d'un papyrus gréco-copte de la région thébaine, Anne Boud'hors
Language choice in the Qurra dossier, Tonio Sebastian Richter
Aristophanes son of Johannes: an 8th-century bilingual scribe? A study of graphic bilingualism, Jennifer Cromwell
Index.