A comprehensive account of the language of Ancient Greek civilization in a single volume, with contributions from leading international scholars covering the historical, geographical, sociolinguistic, and literary perspectives of the language.* A collection of 36 original essays by a team of international scholars* Treats the survival and transmission of Ancient Greek* Includes discussions on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics

List of Figures viiiList of Tables ixNotes on Contributors xiiSymbols Used xviiiAbbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works xixAbbreviations of Modern Sources xxviiiLinguistic and Other Abbreviations xxxv1 Introduction 1Egbert J. BakkerPART I The Sources 92 Mycenaean Texts: The Linear B Tablets 11Silvia Ferrara3 Phoinikeia Grammata: An Alphabet for the Greek Language 25Roger D. Woodard4 Inscriptions 47Rudolf Wachter5 Papyri 62Arthur Verhoogt6 The Manuscript Tradition 69Niels GaulPART II The Language 837 Phonology 85Philomen Probert8 Morphology and Word Formation 104Michael Weiss9 Semantics and Vocabulary 120Michael Clarke10 Syntax 134Evert van Emde Boas and Luuk Huitink11 Pragmatics: Speech and Text 151Egbert J. BakkerPART III Greek in Time and Space: Historical and Geographical Connections 16912 Greek and Proto-Indo-European 171Jeremy Rau13 Mycenaean Greek 189Rupert Thompson14 Greek Dialects in the Archaic and Classical Ages 200Stephen Colvin15 Greek and the Languages of Asia Minor to the Classical Period 213Shane Hawkins16 Linguistic Diversity in Asia Minor during the Empire: Koine and Non-Greek Languages 228Claude Brixhe17 Greek in Egypt 253Sofía Torallas Tovar18 Jewish and Christian Greek 267Coulter H. George19 Greek and Latin Bilingualism 281Bruno RochettePART IV Greek in Context 29520 Register Variation 297Andreas Willi21 Female Speech 311Thorsten Fögen22 Forms of Address and Markers of Status 327Eleanor Dickey23 Technical Languages: Science and Medicine 338Francesca SchironiPART V Greek as Literature 35524 Inherited Poetics 357Joshua T. Katz25 Language and Meter 370Gregory Nagy26 Literary Dialects 388Olga Tribulato27 The Greek of Epic 401Olav Hackstein28 The Language of Greek Lyric Poetry 424Michael Silk29 The Greek of Athenian Tragedy 441Richard Rutherford30 Kunstprosa: Philosophy, History, Oratory 455Victor Bers31 The Literary Heritage as Language: Atticism and the Second Sophistic 468Lawrence KimPART VI The Study of Greek 48332 Greek Philosophers on Language 485Casper C. de Jonge and Johannes M. van Ophuijsen33 The Birth of Grammar in Greece 499Andreas U. Schmidhauser34 Language as a System in Ancient Rhetoric and Grammar 512James I. PorterPART VII Beyond Antiquity 52535 Byzantine Literature and the Classical Past 527Staffan Wahlgren36 Medieval and Early Modern Greek 539David Holton and Io Manolessou37 Modern Greek 564Peter MackridgeBibliography 588Index 639