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Author: Katherine McDonald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-10
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1107103835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A groundbreaking new interpretation of the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken languages of pre-Roman Italy.
Author: Katherine McDonald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-10-01
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1316395537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing systems competed and interacted, and bilingualism was the norm. Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology and the sociolinguistics of language contact, this book explores the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken languages in the south of the peninsula. Dr McDonald undertakes a new analysis of the entire corpus of South Oscan texts written in Lucania, Bruttium and Messana, including dedications, curse tablets, laws, funerary texts and graffiti. She demonstrates that genre and domain are critical to understanding where and when Greek was used within Oscan-speaking communities, and how ancient bilinguals exploited the social meaning of their languages in their writing. This book also offers a cutting-edge example of how to build the fullest possible picture of bilingualism in fragmentary languages across the ancient world.
Author: Katherine McDonald
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781316400975
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Groundbreaking new interpretation of the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken languages of pre-Roman Italy.
Author: Olga Tribulato
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-11-29
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1107029317
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the languages of ancient Sicily by an international team of experts.
Author: Katherine McDonald
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-10-15
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0429629702
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book brings together sources translated from a wide variety of ancient languages to showcase the rich history of pre-Roman Italy, including its cultures, politics, trade, languages, writing systems, religious rituals, magical practices, and conflicts. This book allows readers to access diverse sources relating to the history and cultures of pre-Roman Italy. It gathers and translates sources from both Greek and Latin literature and ancient inscriptions in multiple languages and gives commentary to highlight areas of particular interest. The thematic organisation of this sourcebook helps readers to make connections across languages and communities, and showcases the interconnectedness of ancient Italy. This book includes maps, a timeline, and guides to further reading, making it accessible to students and other readers who are new to this subject. Italy Before Rome is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, including those who have not studied the ancient world before. It is also intended to be useful to researchers approaching this material for the first time, and to university and schoolteachers looking for an overview of early Italian sources.
Author: Mark R. Thatcher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0197586449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This analysis of the relationship between collective identities and politics in ancient Greece focuses on four key types of identity - polis identity, ethnicity (e.g., Dorian or Achaean), regional, and Greek - and places these multiple and flexible self-perceptions at the center of a new account of politics in the Greek West.
Author: Nicholas Zair
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-02
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1107068924
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By examining Greek-alphabet Oscan inscriptions, this book shines light on the linguistics, bilingualism and epigraphy of ancient Southern Italy.
Author: Jonathan R. W. Prag
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-10-24
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 1107032423
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pathbreaking essays challenging the traditional focus on the eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic period and on Rome in the West.
