Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire

Nicholas Zair

doi:10.1017/9781009327633

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Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire

Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire

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Nicholas Zair, University of Cambridge

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: May 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781009327633
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009327633
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Languages
Series:: Cambridge Classical Studies

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This book makes use of digital corpora to give in-depth details of the history and development of the spelling of Latin. It focusses on sub-elite texts in the Roman empire, and reveals that sophisticated education in this area was not restricted to those at the top of society. Nicholas Zair studies the history of particular orthographic features and traces their usage in a range of texts which give insight into everyday writers of Latin: including scribes and soldiers at Vindolanda, slaves at Pompeii, members of the Praetorian Guard, and writers of curse tablets. In doing so, he problematises the use of 'old-fashioned' spelling in dating inscriptions, provides important new information on sound-change in Latin, and shows how much can be gained from a detailed sociolinguistic analysis of ancient texts.

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Chapter 18 - Apices and i-longa: Introduction
pp 207-214

Chapter 19 - Apices and i-longa in the Isola Sacra Inscriptions
pp 215-225

Chapter 20 - Apices in the Vindolanda Tablets
pp 226-238

Chapter 21 - Apices in the Tablets of the Sulpicii
pp 239-244

Chapter 22 - Apex Use in the Vindolanda and TPSulp. Tablets in Comparison
pp 245-249

Chapter 23 - Apices in the Tablets from Herculaneum
pp 250-250

Chapter 24 - i-longa in the Tablets of the Sulpicii and the Tablets from Herculaneum
pp 251-257

Chapter 25 - Conclusions
pp 258-279

Appendix - <uo> and <uu> in Catullus
pp 280-282

Bibliography
pp 283-294

Index
pp 295-296

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