Table of Contents

Introduction. 'So many Sicilies': introducing language and linguistic contact in ancient Sicily Olga Tribulato; Part I. Non-Classical Languages: 1. Language relations in Sicily: evidence for the speech of the Σικανοί, the Σικελοί and others Paolo Poccetti; 2. The Elymian language Simona Marchesini; 3. Phoenician and Punic in Sicily Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo; 4. Oscan in Sicily James Clackson; 5. Traces of language contact in Sicilian onomastics: the evidence from the Great Curse of Selinous Gerhard Meiser; 6. Coins and language in ancient Sicily Oliver Simkin; Part II. Greek: 7. Sicilian Greek before the fourth century BC: a basic grammar Susana Mimbrera; 8. The Sicilian Doric koine Susana Olarte; 9. Intimations of koine in Sicilian Doric: the information provided by the Antiatticist Albio Cesare Cassio; 10. 'We speak Peloponnesian': tradition and linguistic identity in postclassical Sicilian literature Andreas Willi; Part III. Latin: 11. Siculi bilingues? Latin in the inscriptions of early Roman Sicily Olga Tribulato; 12. Sicily in the Roman imperial period: language and society Kalle Korhonen.

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Olga Tribulato is Research Fellow in Classics at Ca' Foscari University, Venice. She has published on Greek morphology and dialectology, ancient scientific language, literary dialects and epigraphy, and co-edited Greek and Latin from an Indo-European Perspective (with Coulter George, Matthew McCullagh, Benedicte Nielsen and Antonia Ruppel, 2007).