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

Herausgeber: Clackson, James; Zair, Nicholas; Tagliapietra, Livia; Mcdonald, Katherine; James, Patrick

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first volume to show the different ways in which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements of people in the ancient world. Discusses cases for the period from the seventh century BC to the fourth century AD, ranging from Spain to Egypt, from Sicily to Pannonia.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Classical Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9781108488440
• ISBN-10: 1108488447
• Artikelnr.: 58382251

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction James Clackson, Patrick James, Katherine McDonald, Livia
Tagliapatra and Nicholas Zair; 2. Inter-ethnic mobility in pre-Roman
Etruria: the contribution of onomastics Daniele F. Maras; 3. Elusive
migrants of ancient Italy Elena Isayev; 4. The language of mobile craftsmen
in the Western Mediterranean Katherine McDonald and James Clackson; 5. Lost
- and found - in transmission: the creation of the Oscan alphabet Karin W.
Tikkanen; 6. Mobility and orthography: a contextualisation of variant
spellings in the Oscan inscriptions in the Greek alphabet Livia
Tagliapietra; 7. The Mamertini in Messina: mobility, migration and
mercenaries Nicholas Zair; 8. Migration, identity, and multilingualism in
Late Hellenistic Delos Francesco Rovai; 9. Interpretes, negotiatores and
the Roman army: mobile professionals and their languages Rachel Mairs; 10.
'HOC PRIMVS VENIT': Italians and others in Egypt before the Caesars Patrick
James; 11. Population, migration and language in the city of Rome Olivia
Elder.