History of Latin Language

Contents

Preface vi

Chapter I Latin and Indo-European 1

Chapter II The Languages of Italy 37

Chapter III The Background to Standardization 77

Chapter IV ‘Old’ Latin and its Varieties in the

Period c.400–150 BC 90

Chapter V The Road to Standardization: Roman Latin

of the Third and Second Centuries BC 130

Chapter VI Elite Latin in the Late Republic and

Early Empire 183

Chapter VII Sub-Elite Latin in the Empire 229

Chapter VIII Latin in Late Antiquity and Beyond 265

Glossary 305

Appendix: The International Phonetic Alphabet 316

Bibliography of Reference and Other Works 317

Index 319