Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire

ISBN-13: 9781009327671 / Angielski

Nicholas Zair

Opis

Makes use of digital corpora to give in-depth details of the history and development of the spelling of Latin. 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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Part I. Old-fashioned Spellings: 2. for /aḙ/; 3. and for /i:/; 4. for /u/; 5. for /u:/; 6. Alternation of and ; 7. for /we/ before a coronal; 8. and for /wu/ and /uu/, and and for /kwu/; 9. Double letters to write long vowels; 10. for /g/; 11. for /jj/; 12. before /(a:)/ and before /u(:)/; 13. for /k/ before back vowels; 14. for /ks/; 15. Geminates and singletons; 16. spepondi; 17. popl- and pupl- for publ-; Part II. Apices and i-longa: 18. Introduction; 19. Apices and i-longa in the Isola Sacra inscriptions; 20. Apices in the Vindolanda tablets; 21. Apices in the tablets of the Sulpicii; 22. Apex use in teh Vindolanda and TPSupl. tablets in comparison; 23. Apices in the tablets from Herculaneium; 24. I-longa in the tablets of the Sulpicii and the tablets from Herculaneum; 25. Conclusions; Appendix.