The Standardisation of ‘Classical Latin’
The Case of Terence's Text
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21418792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giuseppe Pezzini (0000-0001-9845-864X, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford Oxford UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 479-487 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Philological Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0079-1636 • E-ISSN: 1467-968X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-968x.12305 |
| OpenAlex | W4405726899 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
This short piece aims to provide further evidence supporting two of Adams's main claims: (1) the situation of late Republican Latin cannot be isolated from other diachronic varieties, and (for the purpose of my analysis) earlier Latin in particular, as regards both the absence of systematic standardisation and the presence of sporadic and idiosyncratic standardisation efforts; (2) manuscript traditions of literary authors are unreliable, due to extensive linguistic regularisation, which also contributed to foster the construct of a standardised ‘classical Latin’. The evidence I will provide comes from the textual tradition of Terence, a key figure in the history of the standardisation of Latin, in various ways. This is not a systematic study, but rather a methodological overview, focusing on selected orthographic and morphological phenomena
Art · Construct (python library) · Epistemology · Key (lock) · Latin Americans · Linguistics · Literature · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
Terence and the Verb ‘To Be’ in Latin
Cicero and Early Dramatic Latin
The Language of Roman Comedy
Caesar the Linguist
Aspects of the language of Latin poetry
The Early Latin Verb System
The Classical Style of Terence
Cicero and the Early Latin Poets
Encountering Plautus in the Renaissance
Cicero's Style
Lateinische Laut- und Formenlehre
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |