New Approaches to Phrynichus' ›Praeparatio Sophistica‹.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Favi, Federico.

Contributor:

Federico Favi

Series:

Purism in Antiquity Series

Purism in Antiquity Series ; v.3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lexicography.

Greek language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

Purism in Antiquity is devoted to the theories of linguistic purism, and more broadly of linguistic correctness, that were developed in the Greek and Roman world, the texts which transmit them, and the way these theories were received in later periods. The volumes in the series adopt a diachronic viewpoint which combines methodological approaches ranging from literary criticism and linguistics to textual philology and reception studies.

Contents:

Intro

Preface and acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations and reference editions

List of contributors

Introduction (with an appendix on Photius' Bibliotheca cod. 158)

1 Phrynichus' Praeparatio sophistica: A spectre haunting the study of Atticism

2 The contributions included in this volume

3 Future research perspectives

Appendix: Photius' Bibliotheca on the PS, cod. 158.100a.33-101b.31

Bibliography

Phrynichus' Praeparatio sophistica and Eclogue: Logic and chronology

1 Introduction: Alphabetisation in Phrynichus and Moeris

2 Phrynichus: Origins and location

3 The chronology of the PS

4 The purpose of the PS

5 Was the Eclogue written before or after the PS?

6 Conclusions

Appendix: A tentative chronology of the PS

Praeparatio onomastica? Traces of onomastic arrangement in Phrynichus' Praeparatio sophistica

1 Introduction

2 Photius' description

3 The arrangement of the original PS: A consideration of some fragments

4 Possible traces of a horizontal structure in the PS

5 Conclusions

How did the epitomiser(s) work? The epitome of the Praeparatio sophistica and the indirect tradition in comparison

2 The textual evidence for the PS

3 How do the epitome and the indirect tradition stand to one another?

3.1 Agreement between the direct and the indirect tradition

3.2 The direct or the indirect tradition preserve the longer excerpt

3.3 The direct and the indirect tradition result from independent epitomisation and excerption

3.4 Preliminary conclusions (part 1)

4 The 'multiple' entries in the epitome

4.1 ἀνακράζω

4.2 ἀνασπᾶν βούλευμα, ἀνασπᾶν γνωμίδιον

4.3 ἄριστος κλέπτειν, ἄριστος λωποδυτεῖν

4.4 ἀπονυχίζω, ἐξονυχίζω, ὀνυχίζω

4.5 ἀπορθόω

4.6 ἀπὸ στόματος, ἀπὸ γλώττης, ἀποστοματίζω.

4.7 ἀπὸ καιροῦ, ἀπὸ τρόπου

4.8 νεολαία

4.9 πρὸς τοῦ λέγοντος εἶναι, τοῦ λέγοντος εἶναι

4.10 Preliminary conclusions (part 2)

5 Other approaches to the 'multiple' entries and their limits

6 The evidence from the scholia to Euripides

7 Further evidence of the circulation of independently epitomised excerpts from the PS?

8 How was the epitome assembled?

9 Conclusions

Appendix

Stylistic terminology in the Praeparatio sophistica

1 Introduction: Types of evaluative terminology in the PS

2 Atticist (prescriptive) terminology

List 1: Prescriptive (Atticist) terminology in alphabetical order

3 General stylistic terminology

List 2: General stylistic terminology in alphabetical order

4 Stylistic terminology denoting a literary genre, a style, or a linguistic register

List 3: Specific terms for genre, style, and register in alphabetical order

5 A case study: The stylistic category of πολιτικός

καινῶς εἴρηται: The concept of novelty (καινότης) in the Praeparatio sophistica

1 Introduction: Novelty in literature and erudition between criticism and appreciation

2 Novelty in Atticist lexica: A peculiar trait of Phrynichus' theory of style

3 Phrynichus on style: καινότης as evaluative category in the PS

4 The category of καινότης in the indirect tradition of the PS

5 The evaluative terminology of καινότης in the frame of the epitomising process

Learned rudeness: Abusive expressions in Phrynichus' Praeparatio sophistica

2 Searching for scoptic expressions in the PS

3 Contextualising scoptic expressions

4 Urbane mockery

5 Witticisms and wordplays

6 Scoptic expressions and erudite conversation

7 Further (undetected) word-puns?

8 Conclusions.

Appendix: A tentative list of scoptic expressions in the PS

Comic constructions or hapax legomena? Observations on some rare expressions in Phrynichus' Praeparatio sophistica

2 Compounding and prefixation in the Hellenistic and imperial ages

3 Eclogue and Praeparatio sophistica

3.1 The PS on prefixed forms

3.2 The PS on compounds

4 Complex compounds in -έω and their analysis in Phrynichus

4.1 Hellenistic and imperial authors on -έω compounds

4.2 The Eclogue on -έω compounds

4.3 The PS on -έω compounds

Index locorum

Index nominum et rerum

Index of notable Greek terms relating to ancient exegesis

Notable Greek words and expressions.

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ISBN:

3-11-158031-8

9783111580319

OCLC:

1559062843