Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language Contact and the Written Word

by James Noel Adams (Editor), Mark Janse (Editor), Simon Swain (Editor)

This volume aims to introduce classicists, ancient historians, and other scholars interested in sociolinguistic research to the evidence of bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean world. The fifteen original essays in this collection, which have been written by well-regarded experts, cover theoretical and methodological issues and key aspects of the contact between Latin and Greek and among Latin, Greek, and other languages.

494 pages, Hardcover

First published November 21, 2002

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[Kevin Nobel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great review of some questions I had always been curious about