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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Abbreviations -- Signs and Symbols -- Bibliographical Abbreviations -- Introduction / Passa, Enzo / Tribulato, Olga -- Bibliography of Albio Cesare Cassio -- Unconventional Features in Homer: The Case of ἑέ and ἑοῖ / Kaczko, Sara -- σθένεϊ βλεμεαίνων: Origin and Evolution of a Homeric Formula / Willi, Andreas -- Active versus Middle Perfect in Homeric Greek: Synchrony and Diachrony / Beek, Lucien van / Migliori, Laura -- Empedocles in the West, Panyassis in the East: Doric and Hexameter Poetry in the Classical Age / Passa, Enzo -- Of Land, Ancestral Property and Prophecy in Corinna PMG 654 col. iii ll. 37–39 / Prauscello, Lucia -- Epicharmus and Choral Lyric Poetry: A Reappraisal of Old and New Evidence / Favi, Federico -- Early Dactylic Prose in the History of Greek Prose Rhythm / Vatri, Alessandro -- Gk. ταπεινός 'Low(-lying)' and Its IE Heritage: Gk. PN Τέμπυρα, Hitt. dampu- 'Blunt', Old Russ. tupъ 'Blunt, Stupid' / Serangeli, Matilde -- Prose and Poetry of Pain: A History of the Term ἄλγος / Cerroni, Enrico -- Making the Case for a Linguistic Investigation of Greek Lexicography: Some Examples from the Byzantine Reception of Atticist Lemmas / Tribulato, Olga -- List of Contributors -- Index of Notable Words -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Passages

The studies presented in this volume deal with numerous and often undervalued aspects of multilingualism in Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean. Primarily, but not exclusively, they explore the impact of the great transnational languages, Greek and Latin, on numerous indigenous languages: the latter mostly disappeared apart from a number of written texts, often not well comprehensible, but at the same time provided the dominant languages with loanwords, some of them destined to enduring success. Moreover, Greek and Latin were remarkably affected by their mutual contact, with the complication that Greek was notoriously far from monolithic, and in some areas its different dialects intermingled with each other and with the local languages. The case studies of this volume were conducted in the frame of a European HERA research on Multilingualism and Minority Languages in Ancient Europe, which covered a number of very diverse areas, with an emphasis on Sicily and Southern Italy, Illyria, Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace, Egypt and Asia Minor (also in medieval and modern times). This book makes indispensable reading for anyone with an interest in multilingualism and language contact in Ancient Europe