What language was spoken by Roman soldiers? The answer to this question seems simple. The Roman troops spoke Latin! This is confirmed, among others, by an assemblage of surviving letters and their fragments from the fort of Vindolanda in Hadrian’s Wall in Britain. Among numerous inscriptions related to the army, which are found in territories of various provinces of the Empire, a majority are also Latin texts. However, Greek inscriptions also appear. This phenomenon is mostly noticeable in the eastern provinces. Inscriptions found in the area of the legionary fortress in Novae on the Lower Danube include both Latin and Greek texts. An assemblage of letters, similar to that from Vindolanda, known from the fort of Krokodilô loc...
peer reviewedOne of the main consequences of the Roman conquest was the diffusion of the Latin langu...
Questions pertaining to the expansion, distribution, specificity and survival of Latin in the Danubi...
This thesis examines the relationship between language and Roman identity, defined in the broadest s...
This thesis is a sociolinguistic study of language choice in the Roman army, focused on the period b...
Latin always was the official language of the Roman world but, when the Republic gradually yet in a ...
This paper aims to discuss the linguistic data provided by over 400 ostraca from the praesidium of D...
Introduction At Metamorphoses 11.5.22, Apuleius famously calls the Sicilians trilingues, an epithet ...
This paper aims to discuss the linguistic data provided by over 400 ostraca from the praesidium of D...
Greek is the common language of political and administrative relations between Roman authorities and...
This study presents some of the most important phonological and grammatical phenomena which show the...
Various aspects of communication in the Roman Army are dealt with in the paper, from gestures and pr...
In Cyrenaica, a Greek-speaking region, the arrival of Roman power from 1st century BC on gave way to...
The Roman army was actively present in the Eastern Desert of Egypt in the 2nd century CE, from Traja...
The publication of the corpus of the inscriptions of Beroia, followed by that of the sanctuary of Le...
It is not possible to quantify Greek literacy in early Roman Palestine by counting the number of Ara...
peer reviewedOne of the main consequences of the Roman conquest was the diffusion of the Latin langu...
Questions pertaining to the expansion, distribution, specificity and survival of Latin in the Danubi...
This thesis examines the relationship between language and Roman identity, defined in the broadest s...
This thesis is a sociolinguistic study of language choice in the Roman army, focused on the period b...
Latin always was the official language of the Roman world but, when the Republic gradually yet in a ...
This paper aims to discuss the linguistic data provided by over 400 ostraca from the praesidium of D...
Introduction At Metamorphoses 11.5.22, Apuleius famously calls the Sicilians trilingues, an epithet ...
This paper aims to discuss the linguistic data provided by over 400 ostraca from the praesidium of D...
Greek is the common language of political and administrative relations between Roman authorities and...
This study presents some of the most important phonological and grammatical phenomena which show the...
Various aspects of communication in the Roman Army are dealt with in the paper, from gestures and pr...
In Cyrenaica, a Greek-speaking region, the arrival of Roman power from 1st century BC on gave way to...
The Roman army was actively present in the Eastern Desert of Egypt in the 2nd century CE, from Traja...
The publication of the corpus of the inscriptions of Beroia, followed by that of the sanctuary of Le...
It is not possible to quantify Greek literacy in early Roman Palestine by counting the number of Ara...
peer reviewedOne of the main consequences of the Roman conquest was the diffusion of the Latin langu...
Questions pertaining to the expansion, distribution, specificity and survival of Latin in the Danubi...
This thesis examines the relationship between language and Roman identity, defined in the broadest s...