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Guardians of language: the grammarian and society in late antiquity

Robert A. Kaster
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Abbreviations (page xv)
  • PART I
    • Prologue: Anazarbus (page 3)
  • Letters in the World (page 9)
    • Chapter 1: The Guardian and His Burden (page 15)
    • Chapter 2: Professio Litterarum (page 32)
  • Mediocrity (page 97)
    • Chapter 3: The Social Status of Grammarians (page 99)
  • A Place to Stand (page 135)
    • Chapter 4: Pompeius (page 139)
    • Chapter 5: Servius (page 169)
  • Gentlemen and Scholars (page 199)
    • Chapter 6: The Social Relations of the Grammarians (page 201)
  • PART II PROSOPOGRAPHY (page 231)
    • Grammatici, Γραμμρτοδιδάσκαλοι, Magistri Ludi, and the Like (page 237)
    • Dubii, Falsi, Varii (page 380)
  • Appendixes
    • Appendix 1: Titles, Styles, Circumlocutions: A Selection (page 443)
    • Appendix 2: Γραμμρτιστής Meaning Γραμμρτικός (page 447)
    • Appendix 3: Γραμμρτικός as Epithet and Personal Name (page 453)
    • Appendix 4: The Number of Grammarians at Bordeaux (page 455)
    • Appendix 5: Geographical-Chronological List of Teachers (page 463)
  • Bibliography (page 479)
  • Index (page 511)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SP 65.4 (Oct. 1990): 1002-1005 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2863606
CR 41.1 (1991): 97-101 http://www.jstor.org/stable/712603
LC 35.2 (Spring 2000): 366-368 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25548821
JRS 81 (1991): 246-248 http://www.jstor.org/stable/300558
MNE 44.1/2 (1991): 271-273 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4432047
AHR 95.1 (Feb. 1990): 145 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2162982
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Published: c1988
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520055353 (hardcover)
  • 9780520212251 (paper)
Series
  • Transformation of the Classical Heritage
Subject
  • European: 400-1400
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