Greek: a history of the language and its speakers/

Main Author: Horrocks, Geoffrey C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, c2010
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Ancient Greek : from Mycenae to the Roman empire.The ancient Greek dialects
  • Classical Greek : official and literary 'standards'
  • The reise of Attic
  • Greek in the Hellenistic period
  • Greek in the Roman empire
  • Spoken koine in the Roman world
  • pt. 2. Byzantium : from Constantine to Mehmet the Conqueror. Historuical prelude
  • Greek in the Byzantine empire : the major issues
  • Byzantine belles lettres
  • The written koine in Byzantium
  • Spoken Greek in the Byzantine empire : the principal developments
  • Texts in the "vernacular"
  • pt. 3. Modern Greek : from the Ottoman empire to the European Union. Ottoman rule and the War of Independence
  • Spoken Greek in the Ottoman period
  • Written Greek in the Turkish period
  • The History of the modern Greek state
  • The 'language question' and its resolution.