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Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire

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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.

Author(s): Nicholas Zair
Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023

Language: English
Pages: 315
City: Cambridge

Cover
Half-title page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
List of
Figures
List of
Tables
Foreword
Note on the Text
List of
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
What This Book Is About
Sub-elite Education in Literacy
Defining ‘Old-fashioned’ Spelling
Standard and Non-standard Spelling
Structure of the Book
Methodology
Scribes, Writers and Authors
Finding and Counting Old-fashioned Spelling
The Sub-elite Corpora
The Tablets of the Sulpicii (TPSulp.)
The Tablets of Caecilius Jucundus (CIL 4.3340)
The Tablets from Herculaneum (TH2)
The Tablets from London (WT)
The Vindonissa Tablets (T. Vindon.)
The Vindolanda Tablets (Tab. Vindol.)
The Bu Njem Ostraca (O. BuNjem)
Papyrus and Parchment from Dura Europos (P. Dura)
Graffiti from the Paedagogium
Curse Tablets (Kropp)
Letters (CEL)
Funerary Inscriptions from the Isola Sacra (IS)
Writers on Language
A Sketch of the Latin Vowel System through Time
Part I Old-fashioned Spellings
Chapter 2 for /ae̯/
Chapter 3 and for /iː/
for /iː/
for /iː/
Chapter 4 for /u/
Chapter 5 for /uː/
Chapter 6 Alternation of and
/u/ and /i/ in Initial Syllables after /l/ and before a Labial
/u/ and /i/ in Medial Syllables before a Labial
Chapter 7 for /we/ before a Coronal
Chapter 8 and for /wu/ and /uu/, and and for /kwu/
Chapter 9 Double Letters to Write Long Vowels
Chapter 10 for /g/
Chapter 11 for /jj/
Chapter 12 before /a(ː)/ and before /u(ː)/
before /a(ː)/
before /u(ː)/
Chapter 13 for /k/ before Back Vowels
Chapter 14 for /ks/
Chapter 15 Geminates and Singletons
and
and
Singletons for Geminate Consonants after Original Long Vowels
Chapter 16 spepondi
Chapter 17 popl- and pupl- for publ-
Part II Apices and i-longa
Chapter 18 Apices and i-longa : Introduction
Chapter 19 Apices and i-longa in the Isola Sacra Inscriptions
Chapter 20 Apices in the Vindolanda Tablets
Chapter 21 Apices in the Tablets of the Sulpicii
Chapter 22 Apex Use in the Vindolanda and TPSulp. Tablets in Comparison
Chapter 23 Apices in the Tablets from Herculaneum
Chapter 24 i-longa in the Tablets of the Sulpicii and the Tablets from Herculaneum
Chapter 25 Conclusions
Old-Fashioned Spelling? Problems and Different Histories
Optional Spellings and Sub-elite Education
The Education of Scribes and Stonemasons
Optional Spellings: Evidence for Sound Change
Appendix:
and in Catullus
Bibliography
Index