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Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Preface
Scope and aims
Sources and approach
Greek culture and cultural identity
Outline of chapters
1 Expertise and Usage in the Second Sophistic
Language ideologies, ancient and modern
Communities of practice
Atticizing lexicography and grammar
Philosophy and practice beyond Atticism
Hellenist grammarians and prescriptivism
Analogy and anomaly
Conclusions: Multiple ideological axes
2 The Challenge of Atticism
Introduction
The Solecist and Loukianos
Lexiphanes, the hyper-Atticist
The Professor of Rhetoric and pseudo-Atticism
3 Humorous Rigor, Authentic Innovation
Introduction
Old Comedy and language play
The Clouds and the Frogs: Atticism debates in Classical Athens
The Double Indictment and Classical expertise
Conclusions
4 Linguistic and Cultural Contexts
Introduction
Athenaeus and Ulpian, the Syro-Atticist
Anti-Atticism or Anti-Ulpianism?
Loanwords and Latinisms
Fronto and the edges of Romanness
Fronto and Greek, crossing the boundary
Latinity as identity
The bilingual Rome of Aulus Gellius
Grammar versus learnedness
The sweet speech of Favorinus
Greek learning for Roman culture
Conclusions: Cultural Signaling and Sociolinguistic Imaginaries
5 Cultural Identification and Positioning
Introduction: Greeks, Romans, and Barbarians
Authority and language standards
Order overturned: On Salaried Posts in Great Houses
Barbarian expertise: On the Syrian Goddess
Conclusions: Syrians and semi-Greeks?
6 Performing Personae through Language Practice
Introduction
Barbarism as failed performance
Paideia and Greekness: Toxaris and Anacharsis
The Double Indictment, revisited
Conclusions: a Barbarian pepaideumenos
Conclusion
Introduction
Linguistic gatekeeping in Lucian
Cultural identity and linguistic practice
Paideia without Greekness and Greekness without paideia
Lucian, a barbarian at the gates
Notes
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index Rerum
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Preface
Scope and aims
Sources and approach
Greek culture and cultural identity
Outline of chapters
1 Expertise and Usage in the Second Sophistic
Language ideologies, ancient and modern
Communities of practice
Atticizing lexicography and grammar
Philosophy and practice beyond Atticism
Hellenist grammarians and prescriptivism
Analogy and anomaly
Conclusions: Multiple ideological axes
2 The Challenge of Atticism
Introduction
The Solecist and Loukianos
Lexiphanes, the hyper-Atticist
The Professor of Rhetoric and pseudo-Atticism
3 Humorous Rigor, Authentic Innovation
Introduction
Old Comedy and language play
The Clouds and the Frogs: Atticism debates in Classical Athens
The Double Indictment and Classical expertise
Conclusions
4 Linguistic and Cultural Contexts
Introduction
Athenaeus and Ulpian, the Syro-Atticist
Anti-Atticism or Anti-Ulpianism?
Loanwords and Latinisms
Fronto and the edges of Romanness
Fronto and Greek, crossing the boundary
Latinity as identity
The bilingual Rome of Aulus Gellius
Grammar versus learnedness
The sweet speech of Favorinus
Greek learning for Roman culture
Conclusions: Cultural Signaling and Sociolinguistic Imaginaries
5 Cultural Identification and Positioning
Introduction: Greeks, Romans, and Barbarians
Authority and language standards
Order overturned: On Salaried Posts in Great Houses
Barbarian expertise: On the Syrian Goddess
Conclusions: Syrians and semi-Greeks?
6 Performing Personae through Language Practice
Introduction
Barbarism as failed performance
Paideia and Greekness: Toxaris and Anacharsis
The Double Indictment, revisited
Conclusions: a Barbarian pepaideumenos
Conclusion
Introduction
Linguistic gatekeeping in Lucian
Cultural identity and linguistic practice
Paideia without Greekness and Greekness without paideia
Lucian, a barbarian at the gates
Notes
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index Rerum