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

by Olivia Elder and Alex Mullen

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"