HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN GREECE AS A SOCIOLINGUISTIC AREA -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 0.1 The Greek language community in the 5th c. B.C. -- 0.2 Expansion of Attic and the rise of a new standard language -- 0.3 Definition of 'Koine' -- 0.4 Synchronic parallels - Modern Arabic and Modern Greek Koine -- 0.5 The system of linguistic varieties in the Hellenistic period -- NOTES -- Chapter 1. Methodology -- 1.1 Inscriptional corpus -- 1.2 Written versus spoken language -- 1.3 The study of variation in language -- 1.4 Statistical analysis -- 1.5 Stylistic variation in inscriptional sources - The classification of inscriptions -- 1.6 Linguistic characterization of regional inscriptions written during Hellenistic (300-150 B.C.) and Greco-Roman (150 B.C-300 A.D.) times -- NOTES -- Chapter 2. The Hellenistic social and linguistic context -- 2.1 The Hellenistic monarchies -- 2.2 Political and social conditions in the Greek city states -- 2.3 The Greeks of the Hellenistic diaspora -- 2.4 The natives in the eastern Hellenistic monarchies -- 2.5 Religious orientalization of the Greeks -- 2.6 Greek education -- 2.7 Substratum interference -- 2.8 Bidialectalism and bilingualism -- NOTES -- Chapter 3. Decline of Ancient Greek dialects -- 3.1 'Strict' Doric dialects -- 3.1.1 Laconia -- 3.1.2 Messenia -- 3.1.3 Cyrenaica -- 3.1.4 Crete -- 3.2 'Middle' Doric dialects -- 3.2.1 Aegean Doric dialects -- 3.2.2 Western Argolis -- 3.3 'Mild' Doric dialects -- 3.3.1 Saronic Gulf -- 3.3.2 North West Greece -- 3.4 Elis -- 3.5 Achaea -- 3.6 Aeolic dialects -- 3.6.1 Boeotia -- 3.6.2 Thessaly -- 3.6.3 Lesbos -- 3.6.4 Aeolic littoral of Asia minor -- 3.7 Arcado-Cypriot dialects -- 3.7.1 Arcadia -- 3.7.2 Cyprus -- 3.8 Pamphylia -- NOTES -- Chapter 4. Growth of various forms of Koine.

4.1 Attic-Ionic Koine -- 4.1.1 Regional and social varieties -- 4.1.2 Phonology of the Attic dialect in the Hellenistic period -- 4.2 Aegean Doric Koine -- 4.3 Achaean Doric Koine -- 4.4 North West Doric Koine -- 4.4.1 Local standard of Delphi -- 4.5 Egyptian Koine -- 4.6 Eastern (Syro-Palestinean) Koine -- 4.7 Asia Minor Koine -- 4.7.1 Local standards of Magnesia, Pergamon, Priene and Miletos -- NOTES -- Chapter 5. Hellenistic Koine in contact with other languages -- 5.1 Hellenistic Koine in contact with Egyptian -- 5.2 Hellenistic Koine in contact with Phoenician, Aramaic and Arabic -- 5.3 Hellenistic Koine in contact with aboriginal languages of Asia Minor -- NOTES -- Chapter 6. Conclusions -- 6.1 Mechanisms of language change in Hellenistic and Roman Greece -- 6.2 Dialect consciousness and koineizing habits -- 6.3 Survival of Ancient Greek dialects and the formation of Doric Koines -- 6.4 The rise of a pan-Hellenic standard language and the sociolinguistic mechanisms of its spatial diffusion -- 6.5 Epilogue -- Select bibliography -- Index of names -- Subject index.