The lack of openness of Graeco-Roman culture to the “ barbarian” languages is well known. Nevertheless, a notice of the Historia Augusta (Aurelian, 27, 6) testifies that a Nicomachus was able to translate a letter attributed to the Empress Zenobia from Aramaic into Greek : is this notice an indication of changing attitudes at the end of the Empire ? As a matter of fact, in the fourth and fifth centuries, power and even individuals were forced to adapt to the new geo-political situation and to be able to communicate with the barbarians who were henceforth in a strong position in the Empire. But the situation didn’ t evolve culturally : if Christians sometimes gave evidence of an interest, which was not only utilitarian, for alien dialects, t...
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International audienceAt the time of the pax Romana, every year, two hundreds of high civil or milit...
The article analyses a barely known aspect of literary history in Greek language, a fragment that co...
Latin always was the official language of the Roman world but, when the Republic gradually yet in a ...
How can we describe the nature of the relations between Romans and barbarians and how did these rela...
Karin Mackowiak, Hellenistic Royal wills and Roman imperialism: two political cultures in the course...
One of the most striking particularities of the Roman Empire must be identified in its writing of it...
In Cyrenaica, a Greek-speaking region, the arrival of Roman power from 1st century BC on gave way to...
While the idea of the intercultural is foreign to many nations, such as France, it lies at the root ...
International audienceNowadays, there are no sources that mention difficulties in linguistic communi...
This paper attempts to study the situations in which the Greeks, faced with foreign languages — whic...
International audienceIt is well known that the idea of a continuity between the Roman Empire and th...
This paper attempts to show the interest of the translations to study the transmission of the origin...
peer reviewedOne of the main consequences of the Roman conquest was the diffusion of the Latin langu...
Une des conséquences majeures de la conquête romaine fut la diffusion du latin et de la culture roma...
During classical era, the notion of Greek identity was built relatively to barbarian identities. Wha...
International audienceAt the time of the pax Romana, every year, two hundreds of high civil or milit...
The article analyses a barely known aspect of literary history in Greek language, a fragment that co...
Latin always was the official language of the Roman world but, when the Republic gradually yet in a ...
How can we describe the nature of the relations between Romans and barbarians and how did these rela...
Karin Mackowiak, Hellenistic Royal wills and Roman imperialism: two political cultures in the course...
One of the most striking particularities of the Roman Empire must be identified in its writing of it...
In Cyrenaica, a Greek-speaking region, the arrival of Roman power from 1st century BC on gave way to...