Bilingualism has seen an explosion of work in recent years. This volume introduces classicists, ancient historians and other scholars interested in sociolinguis
Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding
In the first half of the 2d millennium BCE, translation occasionally depicted semantically incongruous correspondences. Such cases reflect ancient scribes subst
Through words and images employed both by individuals and by a range of communities across the Graeco-Roman worlds, this book explores the complexity of multili
Since the 1980s, bilingualism has become one of the main themes of sociolinguistics - but there are as yet few large-scale treatments of the subject specific to