The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana
The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana 2 Volume Set Series

The Colloquia are manuals written to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages; they contain examples of how to conduct activities like shopping, banking, visiting friends, hosting parties, taking oaths, winning lawsuits, using the public baths, having fights, making excuses and going to school. They thus offer a unique glimpse of daily life in the early Roman Empire and are an important resource for understanding ancient culture. They have, however, been unjustly neglected because until now there were no modern editions of the texts, no translations into any modern language, and little understanding of what the Colloquia are and where they come from. This book completes the task begun by Volume 1 of making the Colloquia accessible for the first time, presenting a new edition, translation and commentary of the remaining surviving texts. It is clearly written and will interest students, non-specialists and professional scholars alike.

Part I. Colloquium Harleianum: Introduction to the Colloquium Harleianum; Text, translation, and critical apparatus; Commentary; Part II. Colloquium Montepessulanum: Introduction to the Colloquium Montepessulanum; Text, translation, and critical apparatus; Commentary; Part III. Colloquium Celtis: Introduction to the Colloquium Celtis; Text, translation, and critical apparatus; Commentary; Part IV. Related Texts; Indices to Volumes I and II.

Eleanor Dickey is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading. She has published widely on the Latin and Greek languages and the ways in which they were studied in antiquity, including Greek Forms of Address (1996), Latin Forms of Address (2002) and Ancient Greek Scholarship (2007). She also has extensive experience of teaching elementary languages, both Greek and Latin, and has brought to bear on her understanding of ancient language-teaching materials both that experience in general and specific tests of the Colloquia on modern students. In 2014 Professor Dickey was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.