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Politics of Language: Foreign Nativeness and Identity in the Roman Empire

Politics of Language: Foreign Nativeness and Identity in the Roman Empire

Bozia, Eleni

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Ancient GreeceAncient RomeGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1350430323
ISBN13: 9781350430327
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jun 25 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Examining the identity and belonging of native and non-native speakers of Greek during the time of the High Roman Empire, Eleni Bozia closely studies grammarians, lexicographers and literary writers who used Attic Greek.

Bozia argues that transculturalism and translingualism created a new space for both the naturalised and native citizenry. In the act of imitating, emulating and recreating Attic Greek, speakers formed a socio-politically distinct and nuanced mode of expression in the social echelons of the Roman world.

Additionally, this is the first book to explore Greek and Latin texts from both a philological and a computational linguistics perspective. The result is a consideration of how imitation and innovation affect the social positioning of native and bilingual speakers. As such, this combined reading of data derived from classical studies in conjunction with computational linguistics, offers the context of how to serve a new interpretation of our understanding and appreciation of identity.

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