Pratiques du grec dans l'épigraphie de l'Occident : contextes, origines et pratiques culturelles : actes de la XXIIe Rencontre franco-italienne sur l'épigraphie du monde romain (Autun, 22-24 juin 2017) / sous la direction de François Chausson, Antony Hostein et Benoît Rossignol.
Proceedings of the XXII Franco-Italian Meeting on the Epigraphy of the Roman World (Autun, June 22-24, 2017). Why were texts engraved in Greek in the Latin-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire? The collective work Pratiques du grec dans l'épigraphie de l'Occident answers this question by identifying the specificity of a documentation that has not benefited from any recent synthesis. Within the framework of this investigation, two essential aspects are treated by the contributors: the first concerns the contextualization of this documentation, by insisting on the nature of these texts and the agents of their diffusion; the second concerns the nature of this phenomenon, Greek's ability to be an index of the presence of Greek speakers far from their homeland or even a marker of social and cultural distinction. In summary, epigraphic Greek in the West can be approached both as a particular stratum among the other languages attested epigraphically in a predominantly Latin-speaking world and as an imperial language, which testifies as much to administrative or technical practices as to scholars.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Language note
9 contributions in French and Italian, 1 contribution in Spanish.
ISBN
9782356134394 ((paperback))
2356134395
OCLC
1317681774
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