The Language of Roman Letters

Olivia Elder holds a CRASSH/British School at Rome Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, having recently completed her doctorate 'Language and the Politics of Roman Identity' at Peterhouse, Cambridge. She is an ancient historian with particular interests in bilingualism, epigraphy, Roman identity and epistolography. Alex Mullen is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She is co-editor (with Patrick James) of Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds (Cambridge, 2012) and author of Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2013), which won the American Historical Association's James Henry Breasted Prize. She is Principal Investigator of the ERC project The Latinization of the North-Western Roman Provinces: Sociolinguistics, Epigraphy and Archaeology (2017–2022).

• 1. Language and life in letters; 2. A Roman conversation? Code-switching in diachronic context; 3. Republic of letters: the politics of Cicero's Epistolary Code-Switching; 4. Imperial relations: Greek and the lingua Romana of Fronto and friends; 5. The language of letters and beyond: Greek in Suetonius' biographies; 6. Weaving together the threads: epistolary connections.