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This collection of essays explores how Roman scholars and grammarians addressed different kinds of linguistic diversity within the Roman Republic and Empire. It is a follow-up to Robert Kaster's
Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Short Title Abbreviations
- Preface
- Adam Gitner
- Introduction
- 1. Counterfeit and Coinage: Gresham's Law and the Grammarian
- James E. G. Zetzel
- Part I: Varro
- 2. Varro the Conservative?
- Katharina Volk
- 3. Varro and the Sabine Language in the De lingua Latina
- Wolfgang D. C. de Melo
- 4. Varro's Word Trees
- Andreas T. Zanker
- Part II: Professional Grammarians
- 5. The Use of Greek in Diomedes' Ars grammatica
- Bruno Rochette
- 6. The Grammarian Consentius on Language Change and Variation
- Tommaso Mari
- 7. Antiquus = squalidus? Pompeius' Attitude towards Antiquity
- Anna Zago
- 8. T(w)o Be or Not T(w)o Be: The dualis numerus according to Latin Grammarians up to the Early Middle Ages
- Tim Denecker
- 9. Anonymous Grammatical Scholarship: Insights from an Annotated Juvenal Codex from Egypt
- Alessandro Garcea and Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
- Part III: Scholars and Intellectuals
- 10. Civic Metaphors for Lexical Borrowing from Seneca to Gellius
- Adam Gitner
- 11. Grammar and Grammarians, Linguistic and Social Change from Gellius to Macrobius
- Leofranc Holford-Strevens
- 12. Language Variation and Grammatical Theory in Roman Legal Texts
- Rolando Ferri
- Epilogue
- The (Very Fragile) Origins of Guardians of Language
- Robert A. Kaster
- Prosopographical Addenda to Guardians of Language
- Robert A. Kaster
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Notable Passages
About the author
Adam Gitner is a lexicographer at the Thesaurus linguae Latinae (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and docent in historical linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.
Summary
This collection of essays explores how Roman scholars and grammarians addressed different kinds of linguistic diversity within the Roman Republic and Empire. It is a follow-up to Robert Kaster's Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity.
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Adam Gitner organized a conference in 2018 and has now edited the proceedings, to honour Kaster and to walk further steps on the path that he so successfully and influentially laid out with his study of the work of ancient grammarians and their sociopolitical context.
