Language and Power in the Roman Empire and Early India

Attempting to bypass earlier and present discussions about Romanization, identity, and globalization, this e-book confronts the issue of cultural elite integration in the early Roman Empire in a new way by focussing on prestige language as a connecting factor in a Eurasian context. Thus, through a comparison with a central period in early Indian history (around 300 BC–AD 600), Karsten Johanning se...