Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of contributors -- The Greek Alphabet -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek: Novel questions and approaches -- Part I: VARIETIES OF POST-CLASSICAL AND BYZANTINE GREEK -- 2 Tracking down lects in Roman Egypt -- 3 Idiolect in focus: Two brothers in the Memphis Sarapieion (II BCE) -- 4 Imposing psychological pressure in papyrus request letters: A case study of six Byzantine letters written in an ecclesiastical context (VI-VII CE) -- 5 Greek in Egypt or Egyptian Greek? Syntactic regionalisms (IV CE) -- 6 In search of an Egyptian Greek lexicon in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt -- 7 Byzantine literature in "classicised" genres: Some grammatical realities (V-XIV CE) -- 8 From highly classicizing to common prose (XIII-XIV CE): The Metaphrasis of Niketas Choniates' History -- 9 Back to the future: Akritic light on diachronic variation in Cappadocian (East Asia Minor Greek) -- Part II: DIMENSIONS OF VARIATION IN POST-CLASSICAL AND BYZANTINE GREEK -- 10 Tense variation in Ptolemaic papyri: Towards a grammar of epistolary dialogue -- 11 The Classical norm and varieties of Post-classical Greek: Expressions of anteriority and posteriority in a corpus of official documents (I-II CE) -- 12 Orthographic variation and register in the corpus of Greek documentary papyri (300 BCE-800 CE) -- 13 The Greek phonology of a tax collector in Egypt in the first century CE -- 14 Metrical variation in Byzantine colophons (XI-XV CE): The example of ἡ μὲν χεὶρ ἡ γράψασα -- 15 Arguing and narrating: Text type and linguistic variation in tenth-century Greek -- 16 The distinctiveness of syntax for varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek: Linguistic upgrading from the third century BCE to the tenth century CE -- Index locorum -- Index nominum -- Index rerum