Roman perspectives on linguistic diversity: guardians of a changing language

Preface / Adam Gitner ; Introduction. 1 Counterfeit and Coinage: Gresham’s Law and the Grammarian / James E. G. Zetzel ; Part I Varro. 2 Varro the Conservative? / Katharina Volk ; 3 Varro and the Sabine Language in the De lingua Latina / Wolfgang D. C. de Melo ; 4 Varro’s Word Trees / Andreas T. Zanker ; Part II Professional Grammarians. The Use of Greek in Diomedes’ Ars grammatica / Bruno Rochette ; 6 The Grammarian Consentius on Language Change and Variation / Tommaso Mari ; 7 Antiquus = squalidus? Pompeius’ Attitude toward Antiquity / Anna Zago ; 8 T(w)o Be or Not T(w)o Be? The dualis numerus according to Latin Grammarians Up to the Early Middle Ages / Tim Denecker ; 9 Anonymous Grammatical Scholarship: Insights from an Annotated Juvenal Codex from Egypt / Alessandro Garcea and Maria Chiara Scappaticcio ; Part III Scholars and Intellectuals. 10 Civic Metaphors for Lexical Borrowing from Seneca to Gellius / Adam Gitner ; 11 Grammar and Grammarians, Linguistic and Social Change from Gellius to Macrobius / Leofranc Holford-Strevens ; 12 Language Variation and Grammatical Theory in Roman Legal Texts / Rolando Ferri ; Epilogue. The (Very Fragile) Origins of Guardians of Language / Robert A. Kaster ; Prosopographical Addenda to Known Ancient Grammarians / Robert A. Kaster.