" ... The present study concentrates on two periods in the history of the Greek language: Hellenistic (300 - 150 B.C.) and Roman (150 B.C. - 300 A.D.). Its aim is to describe and map the gradual contamination of Classical dialects by the Hellenistic Koine, their ultimate disappe…
" ... The present study concentrates on two periods in the history of the Greek language: Hellenistic (300 - 150 B.C.) and Roman (150 B.C. - 300 A.D.). Its aim is to describe and map the gradual contamination of Classical dialects by the Hellenistic Koine, their ultimate disappe…
Hellenism and Empire explores Greek identity, politics, and culture in the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds of the classical Greeks, and the emphasis placed on Greekness and the Greek herita…