Redefining the Standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism: (6 Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation)

Scholarship surrounding the standard varieties of Ancient Greek (Attic, the Koine, and Atticistic Greek) focused from its beginnings until relatively recently on determining fixed uniformities or differences between them. This collection of essays advocates for understanding them as interconnected and continuously evolving and suggests viewing them as living organisms shaped by their speakers and texts. The authors propose approaches that integrate linguistics, sociolinguistics, and literary studies to explore how speakers navigate linguistic norms and social dynamics, leading to innovations and reshaping of standards. Each contribution challenges the dichotomy between standards and deviations, suggesting that studying linguistic diversity through socio-literary interconnectedness can enrich our understanding of language history and cultural wealth.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Acknowledgments List of Illustrations and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Chiara Monaco, Robert Machado and Eleni Bozia Part 1: Setting the Standards 1 Koines, Standards, and What’s behind Them: Capturing Linguistic Norms in Greek Official Writing  Klaas Bentein 2 Orthographic Variation beyond Spelling Mistakes: Tremas and Adscripts in 194 Greek Papyrus Letters  Winnie Smith 3 Menander and the Alexandrian Dialect: the Atticists’ Perspective on Menander’s Language  Chiara Monaco Part 2: Fashioning Language through Literature and Vice Versa 4 Xenophon, Professional Military Vocabulary, and the Formation of the Literary Koine  Luuk Huitink and Tim Rood 5 Forerunner of the Koine or Attic Bee? The Reception of Xenophon in the Imperial Age  Gabriella Rubulotta 6 Searching for Linguistic Standards in 2 Maccabees  Enrico Cerroni Part 3: Socio-Political Aspects of Language 7 Eupolis fr. 99, 25 PCG: Imposing Standards on Stage?  Anna A. Novokhatko 8 The Dual in Aristophanes and Late Fifth-, Early Fourth-Century Attic  Robert Machado 9 Negotiating Jewish Identity through the (Non-)inflection of Personal Names: Evidence from the Greek of the New Testament  Robert Crellin 10 Politics of Atticism: Prefiguring New Imperial Citizenship  Eleni Bozia 11 Teaching New Testament Greek: What, and How?  Cressida Ryan Index

About the Author :
Chiara Monaco, Ph.D. (2021) University of Cambridge, is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Flanders Research Foundation at Ghent University. Robert Machado is a bye-fellow in Classics at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Eleni Bozia, Ph.D. (2009), Dr. phil. (2018), University of Florida, is an Associate Professor of Classics and Digital Humanities. She has published extensively on linguistic and cultural diversity in Imperial literature. She is the Associate Director of the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project and the Head of the Data-Driven Humanities Research Group. Contributors are: Klaas Bentein, Winnie Smith, Chiara Monaco, Luuk Huitink, Tim Rood, Gabriella Rubulotta, Enrico Cerroni, Robert Crellin, Anna Novokhatko, Robert Machado, Eleni Bozia, Cressida Ryan.