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Trends in Classics - Greek & Latin Linguistics 2

Thessaloniki, 3-5 October 2025

Friday, October 3, 2025

9:30 – 10:00
Registration and Greetings

10:00 – 11.30
Session 1: Greek and Latin multilingual milieus: Language, identity and networks
Chair: TBA

10.00-10.30
Martti Leiwo (Helsinki)
Internal or contact – or selection? Some ideas about linguistic variation in ancient
multilingual military camps

10.30-11.00
Frédérique Biville (Lyon)
Pompéi était-elle une cité bilingue ?

11.00-11.30
Katherine MacDonald (Durham)
Bilingualism and enslavement: slaves as language learners

11:30 – 12:00
Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:30
Session 2: Subliterary / low register Greco-Latin bilingualism in the East / West
Chair: TBA

12.00-12.30
James Clackson (Cambridge) and Alex Mullen (Nottingham)
Greek in the West: the evidence of inscriptions

12.30-13.00
Marta Capano (Siena)
Breaking the divide: bilingualism and phenomena of language contact in rural Sicily between 4th and 7th c. CE

13.00-13.30
Paolo Poccetti (Rome)
On some occurrences of ἔθηκε in the Greek epigraphy of Southern Italy: reflexes of interference with the Italic languages?

13:30 – 15:00
Lunch

15:00 – 16:30
Session 3: Greco-Latin contacts and Biblical texts
Chair: TBA

15.00-15.30
Liana Tronci (Siena)
Participles in translation: Biblical texts as a case study

15.30-16.00
Giuseppina di Bartolo (Lecce) & Elisa Roma (Pavia)
Clause linkage strategies across Greek and Latin up to Old Irish: An investigation of hóti and its equivalents in the New Testament

16.00-16.30
Anna Pompei (Rome)
Greco-Latin contact and Gospels: the translation of participles between morphology, syntax, and aspect

16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:30
Session 4: Greco-Latin relations and technical language(s)
Chair: TBA

17.00-17.30
Bruno Rochette (Liège)
Greek philosophy and Roman satire: Lucilius' Use of Greek philosophical vocabulary

17.30-18.00
Albio Cassio (Rome)
Evander the Arcadian's 'Aeolic dialect' and Latin's claim to Hellenic roots: An Ethnolinguistic imbroglio put to good use

18.00-18.30
David Langslow (Manchester)
Further types of language contact observable in Latin and Greek medical texts in sixth-century Ravenna

19:00
Wine reception

Saturday, October 4, 2025

9:00 – 10:30
Session 5: Greco-Latin contacts and literature
Chair: TBA

9.00-9.30
Maria Napoli (Eastern Piedmont)
How bilingual is textual bilingualism? Switching to Greek in Late Latin texts

9.30-10.00
Nicholas Zair (Cambridge)
‘The subtext here is rapidly becoming text': Virgil's use of Greek grammar in the Aeneid

10.00-10.30
Geoffrey Horrocks (Cambridge)
Ammianus Marcellinus: Literary life in a second language

10.30 – 11:00
Coffee Break

11:00 – 12.30
Session 6: Greco-Latin contacts and literature (continued)
Chair: TBA

11.00-11.30
Daniel Kölligan (Würzburg)
Malalas' Latin

11.30-12.00
Wolfgang De Melo (Oxford)
Calcidius' Timaeus: Greek terminology and other Greek influences.

12.00-12.30
Evangelos Karakasis (Thessaloniki)
Language contact in Horace: the case of Hellenisms

12.30 – 14.00
Session 7: Greco-Latin contacts and ancient/medieval linguistic thought
Chair: TBA

12.30-13.00
Olga Tribulato (Venice)
Perceptions of Latin contact in Byzantine linguistic thought: Some examples from the Suda

13.00-13.30
Stephanie Roussou (Thessaloniki)
Words incorrectly labelled as Latin in late antique and Byzantine grammatical and lexicographical sources

13.30 – 14:00
Luca Alfieri (Rome)
Priscian, the divisio graeca and the history of word-formation in Graeco-Roman grammar

14:00 – 15:30
Lunch

15:30 – 17:00
Session 8: Greco-Latin contacts: borrowing, convergence, divergence
Chair: TBA

15.30-16.00
Ezra la Roi (Ghent)
Parallel performative patterns in Post-classical Greek and Latin

16.00-16.30
Panagiotis Filos (Ioannina) & Georgios K. Giannakis (Thessaloniki)
Compound adverbs in late Greek and Latin: a contact-induced phenomenon or a parallel development?

16.30-17.00
Jesus de la Villa (Madrid)
Word order in Ancient Greek and Latin: the evidence from contexts of translation

17:00 – 17:30
Coffee Break

17:30 – 19:00
Session 9: Greco-Latin contacts: borrowing, convergence, divergence (continued)
Chair: TBA

17.30-18.00
Chiara Gianollo (Bologna)
The syntactic distribution of quantificational nominal phrases

18.00-18.30
Olga Spevak (Toulouse)
Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Some changes in syntactic constructions in the Greek translation

18.30-19.00
Marina Benedetti & Carla Bruno (Siena)
Kάρτα τοι φιλοίκτιστον γυνή: gender mismatches between subject and predicate in Ancient Greek (with a glimpse into Latin)

19.00-19:30
Closing of the Conference

20:00
Dinner

Lieu de la manifestation : KEDEA, September 3rd Avenue, University Campus, Thessaloniki
Organisation : James Clackson, University of Cambridge (jptc1[at]cam.ac.uk) Panagiotis Filos, University of Ioannina (pfilos[at]uoi.gr) Stephanie Roussou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (roussous[at]lit.auth.gr) Stavros Frangoulidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (frango[at]lit.auth.gr) Georgios K. Giannakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (ggianak[at]lit.auth.gr)
Contact : Georgios K. Giannakis (ggianak[at]lit.auth.gr)