Eleanor Dickey
Biographic Data
| ID | 752178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleanor Dickey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleanor |
| FAMILY NAME | Dickey |
| SIGNATURE | DICKEY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4272-4803 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Big Books on Linear B
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Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics
This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary perspectives. It serves as a companion to the texts published in The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (Cambridge, forthcoming). The chapters provide in-depth analyses of the chosen texts from literary, philological, linguistic, and historical perspectives, or offer methodological reflections on Latin texts on papyrus, promoting inn…
Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus: Volume 5, Part V
The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (CLTP) is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and unique reference tool in six volumes, gathering nearly 1,500 Latin texts on papyrus. Editions are provided with both a palaeographic and a critical apparatus, English translations, and detailed introductions. The texts in CLTP cover a wide chronological range and many different types and genres. They include both literary and documentary texts, dating from the first c…
Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek: A Lexicon and Analysis
Why, when, and how did speakers of ancient Greek borrow words from Latin? Which words did they borrow? Who used Latin loanwords, and how? Who avoided them, and why? How many words were borrowed, and what kind of word? How long did the loanwords survive? Until now, attempts to answer such questions have been based on incomplete and often misleading evidence, but this study offers the first comprehensive collection of evidence from papyri, inscript…
The History of Bilingual Dictionaries Reconsidered: An Ancient Fragment Related to Ps.-Philoxenus ( P.Vars. 6) and Its Significance
This article identifies a papyrus in Warsaw, P.Vars. 6, as a fragment of the large Latin–Greek glossary known as Ps.-Philoxenus. That glossary, published in volume II of G. Goetz's Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum on the basis of a ninth-century manuscript, is by far the most important of the bilingual glossaries surviving from antiquity, being derived from lost works of Roman scholarship and preserving valuable information about rare and archaic La…
Comment les hellénophones anciens apprenaient-ils le latin
Durant l’Empire romain, de nombreux Grecs ont appris le latin. Leurs livres et exercices ont été retrouvés dans des manuscrits médiévaux et dans des papyrus égyptiens. Ces documents montrent que certaines de leurs techniques d’apprentissage des langues étaient similaires aux nôtres et d’autres très différentes. Certains uniquement intéressés par la maîtrise de l’oral ont appris le latin en utilisant des matériaux translittérés en alphabet grec. D…
The Ideal Child does not Play: Insights from Europe’s Oldest Children’s Book
Europe’s oldest children’s book was a bilingual easy reader designed to teach Greek to Roman schoolchildren. Composed perhaps in the first century BC, it described a typical day in the life of a Roman schoolboy: getting ready for school, lessons, interactions with other children, lunch, etc. Although we no longer have this text exactly in its original form, it survives in multiple versions rewritten in subsequent centuries during the Roman empire…
A Re-Examination of New Testament Papyrus P99 (Vetus Latina an Glo Paul)
A bilingual Greek–Latin glossary in the papyrus Chester Beatty AC 1499 (= New Testament P99, Vetus Latina AN glo Paul) contains numerous short extracts from the letters of Paul. New photographs and re-examination of the original have allowed substantial corrections to previous editions of the text, causing some rare or unique variant readings to disappear and others to appear for the first time. The history of the glossary can now be better under…
When please ceases to be polite: The use of sis in early Latin
Latin sis , contracted from si uis (‘if you wish’) and commonly attached to imperatives in early Latin, is usually translated as ‘please’, but some scholars have seen it as urgent rather than polite. Here, an examination of all the examples of sis in early Latin (chiefly Plautus and Terence) demonstrates that it is neither polite nor urgent and indeed has no function in the politeness system at all: its function is as a focus-marking clitic parti…
Stories of Daily Life from the Roman World: Extracts from the Ancient Colloquia
What did Roman children do first when they arrived at school in the morning? What excuse for missing school could be counted on to stave off a whipping from the teacher? What did a Roman banker do when someone came to borrow money? What did a Roman wife say when her husband came home drunk? The answers to such questions can be found not in mainstream ancient literature (whose writers had their minds on higher things) but in language textbooks for…
Politeness in ancient Rome: Can it help us evaluate modern politeness theories
This paper takes four frameworks for understanding linguistic politeness (Brown and Levinson, Watts, Terkourafi, Hall) and tests each on the same corpus to see whether they yield results that are useful and/or in keeping with the other information we have about the material. The corpus used consists of 661 polite requests made in letters by a single Roman author, Cicero. The results demonstrate first that politeness theories are helpful as explan…
Learning Latin the Ancient Way: Latin Textbooks from the Ancient World
What did Greek speakers in the Roman empire do when they wanted to learn Latin? They used Latin-learning materials containing authentic, enjoyable vignettes about daily life in the ancient world - shopping, banking, going to the baths, having fights, being scolded, making excuses - very much like the dialogues in some of today's foreign-language textbooks. These stories provide priceless insight into daily life in the Roman empire, as well as int…
The Sources of our Knowledge of Ancient Scholarship
The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana
The Colloquia are manuals written to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages; they contain examples of how to conduct activities like shopping, banking, visiting friends, hosting parties, taking oaths, winning lawsuits, using the public baths, having fights, making excuses and going to school. They thus offer a unique glimpse of daily life in the early Roman Empire and are an important resource for understanding ancien…
How to say ‘please’ in post-Classical Latin: Fronto and the importance of archaism
Columnar Translation: An Ancient Interpretive Tool That the Romans Gave the Greeks
Among the more peculiar literary papyri uncovered in the past century are numerous bilingual texts of Virgil and Cicero, with the Latin original and a Greek translation arranged in distinctive narrow columns. These materials, variously classified as texts with translations or as glossaries, were evidently used by Greek-speaking students when they first started to read Latin literature. They thus provide a unique window into the experience of the …
A Catalogue of Works Attributed to the Grammarian Herodian
New legal texts from the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana
Several previously unnoticed texts concerning ancient lawcourts can be found in the Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana , a set of bilingual dialogues composed for language learners during the Roman empire. The texts describe court cases, both criminal and civil; their writers probably taught in law schools between the second and fourth centuries ad. Editions, translations, and summary information about these texts are provided
Jean Lallot, Études sur la grammaire alexandrine
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The rules of politeness and Latin request formulae
This chapter tests the practical usefulness of four theoretical frameworks that have been proposed for the analysis of linguistic politeness: those of Brown and Levinson, Watts, Terkourafi, and Hall. A non-technical explanation of these theories and the arguments normally used for and against each is provided. The theories are then used to analyse a corpus of 661 passage from Cicero’s letters (i.e. all passages in the letters where Cicero uses on…
Variation and change in Greek and Latin
The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana: Volume 1, Colloquia Monacensia-Einsidlensia, Leidense-Stephani, and Stephani
The Colloquia are manuals written to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages; they contain examples of how to conduct activities like shopping, banking, visiting friends, hosting parties, taking oaths, winning lawsuits, using the public baths, having fights, making excuses and going to school. They thus offer a unique glimpse of daily life in the Early Roman Empire and are an important resource for understanding ancien…
How to Say ‘Please’ in Classical Latin
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Epimerismi Homerici
Scholarship, Ancient
Forms of address and terms of reference
This paper examines the relationship between the use of names and other words in address and in reference: how does the way that speaker A addresses B differ from the way that A refers to B, and what are the factors affecting this difference? The study, based on observation and interviews, attempts both to solve a problem in pragmatics and to help historical linguists and others who need to know the extent to which it may be justified to extrapol…
Forms of Address and Conversational Language in Aristophanes and Menander
indicating that Sico spoke oddly? Probably not. Although there is a cook with peculiar linguistic habits in Straton's comedy F??????d??, that cook cannot be taken as representing a general tendency of cooks in New Comedy. His obscure Homeric words are quoted not from his own lips but from those of someone else who is complaining about his language, clearly for comic effect. Sico in Dyscolus, on the other hand, is not caricatured for his use of la…
Greek Forms of Address from Herodotus to Lucian
Columnar Translation: An Ancient Interpretive Tool That the Romans Gave the Greeks
Among the more peculiar literary papyri uncovered in the past century are numerous bilingual texts of Virgil and Cicero, with the Latin original and a Greek translation arranged in distinctive narrow columns. These materials, variously classified as texts with translations or as glossaries, were evidently used by Greek-speaking students when they first started to read Latin literature. They thus provide a unique window into the experience of the …
Literal and Extended use of Kinship Terms in Documentary Papyri
Kinship terms in papyrus letters do not always refer to actual relatives and so pose many problems for modern readers. But by examining all the kinship terms in six centuries of letters it is possible to discover some rules governing the use of kinship terms: in some situations they appear to be always literal, and in others they appear to be almost always extended, though a third group of contexts remains ambiguous. The rules are complex and dep…
How to Say ‘Please’ in Classical Latin
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How to say ‘please’ in post-Classical Latin: Fronto and the importance of archaism
The Greek address system of the Roman period and its relationship to Latin
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O egregie grammatice: The vocative problems of Latin words ending in -ius
A long-lasting and sometimes acrimonious debate over the correct vocative form of second-declension Latin words in -ius began more than 800 years ago. For the past century most classicists have considered the matter to be settled, and little discussion on the subject has taken place. Yet the century-old conclusions we now so unthinkingly accept are based on very little evidence and are internally inconsistent in some of their details. The past hu…
The ancient Greek address system and some proposed sociolinguistic universals
This article summarizes the results of a longer study of address forms in Ancient Greek, based on 11,891 address tokens from a variety of sources. It argues that the Greek evidence appears to contradict two tendencies, found in address forms in other languages, which have been claimed as possible sociolinguistic universals: the tendency toward T/V distinctions, and the principle that "What is new is polite." It is suggested that these alleged uni…
The Ideal Child does not Play: Insights from Europe’s Oldest Children’s Book
Europe’s oldest children’s book was a bilingual easy reader designed to teach Greek to Roman schoolchildren. Composed perhaps in the first century BC, it described a typical day in the life of a Roman schoolboy: getting ready for school, lessons, interactions with other children, lunch, etc. Although we no longer have this text exactly in its original form, it survives in multiple versions rewritten in subsequent centuries during the Roman empire…
Learning Latin the Ancient Way: Latin Textbooks from the Ancient World
What did Greek speakers in the Roman empire do when they wanted to learn Latin? They used Latin-learning materials containing authentic, enjoyable vignettes about daily life in the ancient world - shopping, banking, going to the baths, having fights, being scolded, making excuses - very much like the dialogues in some of today's foreign-language textbooks. These stories provide priceless insight into daily life in the Roman empire, as well as int…
Me autem nomine appellabat: Avoidance of Cicero's name in his dialogues
Cicero's dialogue De Finibus depicts three conversations between the author and his friends. In the course of these conversations Cicero depicts himself as addressing his interlocutors directly, using the vocative case, on 45 occasions; the other characters, however, never address Cicero at all. What is the reason for this imbalance
Forms of Address and Conversational Language in Aristophanes and Menander
indicating that Sico spoke oddly? Probably not. Although there is a cook with peculiar linguistic habits in Straton's comedy F??????d??, that cook cannot be taken as representing a general tendency of cooks in New Comedy. His obscure Homeric words are quoted not from his own lips but from those of someone else who is complaining about his language, clearly for comic effect. Sico in Dyscolus, on the other hand, is not caricatured for his use of la…
Forms of address and terms of reference
This paper examines the relationship between the use of names and other words in address and in reference: how does the way that speaker A addresses B differ from the way that A refers to B, and what are the factors affecting this difference? The study, based on observation and interviews, attempts both to solve a problem in pragmatics and to help historical linguists and others who need to know the extent to which it may be justified to extrapol…
Me autem nomine appellabat: Avoidance of Cicero's name in his dialogues
Cicero's dialogue De Finibus depicts three conversations between the author and his friends. In the course of these conversations Cicero depicts himself as addressing his interlocutors directly, using the vocative case, on 45 occasions; the other characters, however, never address Cicero at all. What is the reason for this imbalance
Recherches lexicales en grec ancien: Etymologie, analogie, representations
The ancient Greek address system and some proposed sociolinguistic universals
This article summarizes the results of a longer study of address forms in Ancient Greek, based on 11,891 address tokens from a variety of sources. It argues that the Greek evidence appears to contradict two tendencies, found in address forms in other languages, which have been claimed as possible sociolinguistic universals: the tendency toward T/V distinctions, and the principle that "What is new is polite." It is suggested that these alleged uni…
Greek Forms of Address from Herodotus to Lucian
Greek Forms of Address from Herodotus to Lucian
Greek Forms of Address from Herodotus to Lucian
How did an Athenian citizen address his wife? His children, his slaves, and his dog? How did they address him? This book is the first major application of linguistic theories of address to an ancient language. It is based on a corpus of 11,891 vocatives from twenty-five prose authors from Herodotus to Lucian, and on comparative data from Aristophanes, Menander, and other sources; the data are analysed using techniques and evidence from the field …
O egregie grammatice: The vocative problems of Latin words ending in -ius
A long-lasting and sometimes acrimonious debate over the correct vocative form of second-declension Latin words in -ius began more than 800 years ago. For the past century most classicists have considered the matter to be settled, and little discussion on the subject has taken place. Yet the century-old conclusions we now so unthinkingly accept are based on very little evidence and are internally inconsistent in some of their details. The past hu…
Latin Forms of Address: From Plautus to Apuleius
How did Romans address their children, their parents, their slaves, and their patrons? When one Roman called another 'dearest', 'master', 'brother', 'human being', 'executioner', or 'soft little cheese', what did these terms really mean and why? This book brings to bear on such questions a corpus of 15,441 addresses spanning four centuries, drawn from literary prose, poetry, letters, inscriptions, ostraca, and papyri and analysed during recent wo…
Ancient Bilingualism
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Patrii Sermonis Egestas: Einstellungen Lateinischer Autoren Zu Ihrer Muttersprache. Ein Beitrag Zum Sprachbewuβtsein in Der Römischen Antike
Literal and Extended use of Kinship Terms in Documentary Papyri
Kinship terms in papyrus letters do not always refer to actual relatives and so pose many problems for modern readers. But by examining all the kinship terms in six centuries of letters it is possible to discover some rules governing the use of kinship terms: in some situations they appear to be always literal, and in others they appear to be almost always extended, though a third group of contexts remains ambiguous. The rules are complex and dep…
The Greek address system of the Roman period and its relationship to Latin
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Ancient Greek scholarship: A guide to finding, reading, and understanding scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises, from their beginnings to the Byzantine period
Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek (review)
Reviewed by: Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek Eleanor Dickey Coulter H. George . Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 288. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-84789-3. Greek students frequently have trouble with the rule that animate agents of passive verbs are expressed with + genitive unless the verb is perfect or pluperfect passive. Apart from a simple tendency to forget …
Colloquial and Literary Latin
What is colloquial Latin? What can we learn about it from Roman literature, and how does an understanding of colloquial Latin enhance our appreciation of literature? This book sets out to answer such questions, beginning with examinations of how the term 'colloquial' has been used by linguists and by classicists (and how its Latin equivalents were used by the Romans) and continuing with exciting new research on colloquial language in a wide range…
Epimerismi Homerici
Scholarship, Ancient
From Alexandria to Babylon: Near Eastern Languages and Hellenistic Erudition in the Oxyrhrynchus Glossary (P.Oxy. 1802 + 4812) (review)
Reviewed by: From Alexandria to Babylon: Near Eastern Languages and Hellenistic Erudition in the Oxyrhrynchus Glossary (P.Oxy. 1802 + 4812) Eleanor Dickey Francesca Schironi. From Alexandria to Babylon: Near Eastern Languages and Hellenistic Erudition in the Oxyrhrynchus Glossary (P.Oxy. 1802 + 4812). Sozomena, 4. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. Pp. x, 176, incl. 13 plates. $78.00. ISBN 978-3-11-020693-7. This extraordinarily learned litt…
Mabel Louise Lang (1917-2010)
12 NOVEMBER 1917 * 21 JULY 2010MABEL LOUISE LANG died peacefully in July 2010 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, a mile from college where she spent seventy years as a student and teacher, worshipped by generations of students and respected by scholars around world.Mabel Lang was born on 12 November 1917 in Utica, New York, and received her A.B. from Cornell in 1939. In fall of 1939 she arrived as a graduate student at Bryn Mawr, where she would remain …
The rules of politeness and Latin request formulae
This chapter tests the practical usefulness of four theoretical frameworks that have been proposed for the analysis of linguistic politeness: those of Brown and Levinson, Watts, Terkourafi, and Hall. A non-technical explanation of these theories and the arguments normally used for and against each is provided. The theories are then used to analyse a corpus of 661 passage from Cicero’s letters (i.e. all passages in the letters where Cicero uses on…
Variation and change in Greek and Latin
The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana: Volume 1, Colloquia Monacensia-Einsidlensia, Leidense-Stephani, and Stephani
The Colloquia are manuals written to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages; they contain examples of how to conduct activities like shopping, banking, visiting friends, hosting parties, taking oaths, winning lawsuits, using the public baths, having fights, making excuses and going to school. They thus offer a unique glimpse of daily life in the Early Roman Empire and are an important resource for understanding ancien…
How to Say ‘Please’ in Classical Latin
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