A Colloquium in Honor of the 30th Anniversary of Robert Kaster’s Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity
University of Cologne, Institut für Altertumskunde, July 19–20, 2018
Thursday, 19 July
14:00–14:15 Adam Gitner: Welcome and Introduction
14:15–15:45 Panel 1: Grammarians on Language Change
Tommaso Mari: “Consentius’ De barbarismis et metaplasmis: The Views of a Late Grammarian on Language Variation”
Rolando Ferri: “Grammatical Language and Linguistic Theory in Roman Jurists’ Commentaries of the Edict”
Anna Zago: “Antiquus = squalidus? Pompeius’ Attitude towards Antiquity”
16:15–17:45 Panel 2: Varro
Wolfgang de Melo: “Varro and the Sabine Language in the De lingua Latina”
Katharina Volk: “Varro the Conservative?”
Andreas Zanker: “Varro’s Word Trees and Natural and Voluntary Declinatio”
Friday, 20 July
9:00–10:15 Keynote J. E. G. Zetzel “Counterfeit and Coinage: Gresham’s Law and the Grammarian”
10:45–12:15 Panel 3: Grammarians on Language Contact
Bruno Rochette: “The Use of Greek in Diomedes’ Ars Grammatica”
Tim Denecker: “T(w)o Be or Not T(w)o Be? The dualis numerus According to Latin Grammarians up to the Early Middle Ages”
Adam Gitner: “Words as Citizens: A Metaphor for Lexical Borrowing”
13:30–14:30 Panel 4 Beyond the Grammarians
Leofranc Holford-Strevens: “Roman Perspectives on Grammar and Grammarians: Gellius and Afterwards”
Joshua T. Katz: “Familiarity Breeds Respect: Augustine on Linguistic Relationship”
14:45–15:30 Endnote Robert Kaster “Guardians of Language After Thirty Years”
15:30 Concluding remarks