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Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire
  • Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire
  • Nicholas Zair
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date: July 2023
  • Print publication: 31 July 2023
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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.
  • Chapter 1 - Linguistic Resistance to Rome
  • from Part I - Language and Identity
  • Edited by Daniel Jolowicz, Downing College, Cambridge, Jaś Elsner, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
  • Book: Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire
  • Published online: 23 December 2022
  • Print publication: 05 January 2023, pp 29-48
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    Summary

    The use of local languages is sometimes considered a marker of resistance to Roman power or culture. However, we show that continued use of local languages cannot necessarily be equated with resistance, nor is it easy to identify the use of language or script in particular inscriptions as driven by a desire to express resistance. This chapter discusses how (and whether) it is possible to know when resistance is involved in language use in the Roman Empire and examines case studies of inscriptional evidence pertaining to the use of Faliscan, Oscan, Paelignian, Venetic, Celtiberian, and Hebrew. We propose that many of them were written to present a ‘non-Roman’ rather than an ‘anti-Roman’ identity, and that ‘non-Roman’ identity could stand alongside both acceptance of Rome and violence resistance to its political hegemony.

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

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