The Paths of Greek : Literature, Linguistics and Epigraphy / Enzo Passa, Olga Tribulato.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Passa, Enzo, Editor.

Tribulato, Olga, Editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 85.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 85

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek philology.

Greece.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 283 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume proposes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of Ancient Greek. Each of its ten papers offers a methodological example of how the study of Greek can be greatly enhanced by a truly multidisciplinary perspective in which the analysis of language interacts with epigraphy, textual philology and comparative linguistics, yet without neglecting the role that linguistic features play in the texts in which they are used, and hence in the culture which produced both. The first four papers tackle epic language, addressing eccentric pronouns and formulas, the role and semantics of the middle perfect, and the development of hexameter poetry in the colonial West. The next two papers are devoted to lyric poetry and its linguistic influence in Greek literature and tackle fragments by Corinna and Epicharmus respectively. The remaining four contributions look into a variety of topics spanning from early Ionic prose to the diachronic development of the Greek lexicon and its reception in Byzantine lexicography. They all provide examples of how Greek literary language evolved across the centuries, how it was perceived by ancient scholars, and what contribution modern linguistic approaches can provide to our understanding of both these issues.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

General Abbreviations

Signs and Symbols

Bibliographical Abbreviations

Introduction

Bibliography of Albio Cesare Cassio

Unconventional Features in Homer: The Case of ἑέ and ἑοῖ

σθένεϊ βλεμεαίνων: Origin and Evolution of a Homeric Formula

Active versus Middle Perfect in Homeric Greek: Synchrony and Diachrony

Empedocles in the West, Panyassis in the East: Doric and Hexameter Poetry in the Classical Age

Of Land, Ancestral Property and Prophecy in Corinna PMG 654 col. iii ll. 37-39

Epicharmus and Choral Lyric Poetry: A Reappraisal of Old and New Evidence

Early Dactylic Prose in the History of Greek Prose Rhythm

Gk. ταπεινός 'Low(-lying)' and Its IE Heritage: Gk. PN Τέμπυρα, Hitt. dampu- 'Blunt', Old Russ. tupъ 'Blunt, Stupid'

Prose and Poetry of Pain: A History of the Term ἄλγος

Making the Case for a Linguistic Investigation of Greek Lexicography: Some Examples from the Byzantine Reception of Atticist Lemmas

List of Contributors

Index of Notable Words

Index of Subjects

Index of Passages

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110621808

3110621800

9783110621747

3110621746

OCLC:

1121056366