Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean

378 Pages·2020·5.511 MB·

by  James Clackson (editor), Patrick James (editor), Katherine McDonald (editor), Livia Tagliapietra (editor), Nicholas Zair (editor)

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MIGRATION, MOBILITYAND LANGUAGE
CONTACT IN AND AROUND THE ANCIENT
MEDITERRANEAN
Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient
Mediterraneanisthefirstvolumetoshowthedifferentwaysinwhichsurviving
linguistic evidence can be used to track movements of people in the ancient
world.Elevenchapterscovera numberofcasestudies,whichspantheperiod
fromtheseventhcenturyBCtothefourthcenturyAD,rangingfromSpainto
Egypt,fromSicilytoPannonia.Thebookincludesdetailedstudyofepigraphic
andliteraryevidencewritteninLatinandGreek,aswellasworkonlanguages
whicharenotsowelldocumented,suchasEtruscanandOscan.Thereisasubject
indexandanindexofworksandinscriptionscited.
james clackson is Professor of Comparative Philology in the Faculty of
Classics at the University of Cambridge and isone of the foremost scholars of
thehistoricalsociolinguisticsofLatinandGreek.Hismajorpublicationsinclude
Indo-EuropeanLinguistics(Cambridge,2007),TheBlackwellHistoryoftheLatin
Language(withGeoffreyHorrocks)(2007),ACompaniontotheLatinLanguage
(2011)andLanguageandSocietyintheGreekandRomanWorlds(Cambridge,
2015).HewasPIoftheAHRC-fundedProject‘GreekinItaly’(2013–18).
patrick james teaches Classics at Haileybury College, Hertfordshire. He
servedfornineyearsasanAssistantEditorfortheCambridgeGreekLexicon.
katherine mcdonald is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the
UniversityofExeter.HerbooksincludeOscaninSouthernItalyandSicily(CUP,
2015)andItaly before Rome:ASourcebook(forthcoming),writtenaspartofher
AHRC-fundedproject‘ConnectivityandCompetition:MultilingualisminAncient
Italy’.
livia tagliapietra is Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Jesus College,
Cambridge.ShewroteherPhDthesisaspartoftheAHRC-fundedproject‘Greekin
Italy’. Her research interests include ancient Greek linguistics and dialectology,
historicalsociolinguistics,andthelanguagesandculturesofancientItaly.
nicholas zair is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and
FellowofPeterhouse.Hehaswrittentwobooks:TheReflexesoftheProto-Indo-
European Laryngeals in Celtic (2012) and Oscan in the Greek Alphabet
(Cambridge, 2016). He is presently working on a third, on Roman imperial
inscriptions and sub-elite education, while holding a Pro Futura Scientia
FellowshipbasedinCambridgeandUppsala.
cambridge classical studies
Generaleditors
j. p. t. clackson, w. m. beard, g. betegh,
r. l. hunter, m. j. millett, s. p. oakley,
r. g. osborne, t. j. g. whitmarsh
MIGRATION, MOBILITYAND LANGUAGE CONTACT IN
AND AROUND THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
editedby
JAMESCLACKSON
UniversityofCambridge
PATRICKJAMES
HaileyburyCollege
KATHERINEMCDONALD
UniversityofExeter
LIVIATAGLIAPIETRA
UniversityofCambridge
NICHOLASZAIR
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CONTENTS
ListofFigures pageix
ListofTables x
ListofContributors xi
Acknowledgements xii
AbbreviationsofAncientAuthorsandWorks xiii
AbbreviationsofModernSources xvi
1 Introduction 1
james clackson, patrick james, katherine
mcdonald, livia tagliapietra and nicholas
zair
2 InterethnicMobilityandIntegrationinPre-Roman
Etruria:TheContributionofOnomastics 23
daniele f. maras
3 ElusiveMigrantsofAncientItaly 53
elena isayev
4 TheLanguageofMobileCraftsmenintheWestern
Mediterranean 75
katherine mcdonald and james clackson
5 Lost–andFound–inTransmission:TheCreation
oftheOscanAlphabet 98
karin w. tikkanen
6 MobilityandOrthography:AContextualisation
ofVariantSpellingsintheOscanInscriptions
intheGreekAlphabet 122
livia tagliapietra
vii
Contents
7 TheMamertiniinMessina:Mobility,Migration
andMercenaries 156
nicholas zair
8 Migration,Identity,andMultilingualism
inLateHellenisticDelos 171
francesco rovai
9 Interpretes,NegotiatoresandtheRomanArmy:
MobileProfessionalsandTheirLanguages 203
rachel mairs
10 HOCPRIMVSVENIT:ItaliansandOthers
inEgyptbeforetheCaesars 230
patrick james
11 Population,MigrationandLanguageintheCity
ofRome 268
olivia elder
References 296
IndexLocorum 335
SubjectIndex 350
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