The Language of Roman Letters: Bilingual Epistolography from Cicero to Fronto

(Part of the Cambridge Classical Studies Series)

by Olivia Elder and Alex Mullen

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Roman letters demonstrate that language has imperium: the power to resolve problems, to negotiate relationships and to construct identities. This book combines sociolinguistic and historical approaches to explore how that power is deployed by the bilingual elite of the Roman Republic and Empire, offering the first systematic analysis of Greek code-switches in the letters of Cicero, Pliny, Marcus Aurelius and Fronto and in the Lives of Suetonius. Greek...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1108480160

ISBN13:9781108480161

Release Date:November 2019

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:346 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"

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The Language of Roman Letters: Bilingual Epistolography from Cicero to Fronto

(Part of the Cambridge Classical Studies Series)

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