Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers (Revised)

"Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers."
Choice

"...one of Horrocks' greatest achievements is the skill with which he demonstrates the special value of the history of Greek, thinking about the Greek language in terms of breadth and depth that are unusual among linguists working on Greek."
Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"Horrocks offers an exemplary, and unique, survey of the development of the Greek language from its Mycenaean beginnings to the present day, with a particular emphasis on the reasons for Greek's linguistic conservatism. Widely read and much praised in its first edition, this expanded and revised second edition is to be recommended even more highly to all those interested in Greek of any period."
Elizabeth Jeffreys, University of Oxford

Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers traces the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of