A Historical Greek Reader

• Includes a wide range of texts of different periods and genres, many of them not easily accessible elsewhere
• Features the latest thinking on dialectology and sociolinguistics
• All texts are translated and all linguistic terms explained

Readership: Scholars and students of classics, especially of ancient Greek; of Indo-European languages; of historical linguistics.

Stephen Colvin, Reader in Classics and Comparative Philology at the University of London

I. Introduction
1: Greek and Indo-European
2: Mycenaean Greek
3: The alphabetic period
4: Dialect diversity: the eighth to the fourth centuries BC
5: Literary languages
6: Post-classical prose: the koine
II. Texts with translation and commentary
Mycenaean
Greek dialect inscriptions
Greek literary texts