Geoffrey Horrocks 
Greek [PDF ebook] 
A History of the Language and its Speakers

Preface to the First Edition xii
Preface to the Second Edition xv
IPA Chart xvii
The Greek Alphabet xviii
Introduction: The Scope and Purpose of This Book 1
PART I Ancient Greek: From Mycenae to the Roman Empire7
1 The Ancient Greek Dialects 9
2 Classical Greek: Official and Literary ‘Standards’43
3 The Rise of Attic 67
4 Greek in the Hellenistic World 79
5 Greek in the Roman Empire 124
6 Spoken Koine in the Roman Period 160
PART II Byzantium: From Constantine I to Mehmet the Conqueror189
7 Historical Prelude 191
8 Greek in the Byzantine Empire: The Major Issues 207
9 Byzantine Belles Lettres 231
10 The Written Koine in Byzantium 244
11 Spoken Greek in the Byzantine Empire: The Principal Developments 273
12 Texts in the ‘Vernacular’ 325
PART III Modern Greek: From the Ottoman Empire to the European Union 371
13 Ottoman Rule and the War of Independence 373
14 Spoken Greek in the Ottoman Period 379
15 Written Greek in the Turkish Period 413
16 The History of the Modern Greek State 428
17 The ‘Language Question’ and its Resolution438
Bibliography 471
Index 493

Geoffrey Horrocks is Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Fellow of St John’s College. His previous books include Space and Time in Homer (1981), Generative Grammar (1987), Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers (1997), and The Blackwell History of the Latin Language (with James Clackson, 2007).