Ancient and Medieval Greek Etymology : : Theory and Practice I / / ed. by Arnaud Zucker, Claire Le Feuvre.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Beta, Simone,; Chriti, Maria,; Cusset, Christophe,; Decloquement, Valentin,; Filoni, Andrea,; Le Feuvre, Claire,; Mistretta, Marco Romani,; Petit, Daniel,; Rousseau, Nathalie,; Vergados, Athanassios,; Zucker, Arnaud,
• HerausgeberIn: Le Feuvre, Claire,; Zucker, Arnaud,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 111
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 341 p.)

This volume on Greek synchronic etymology offers a set of papers evidencing the cultural significance of etymological commitment in ancient and medieval literature. The four sections illustrate the variety of approaches of the same object, which for Greek writers was much more than a technical way of studying language. Contributions focus on the functions of etymology as they were intended by the authors according to their own aims. (1) “Philosophical issues” addresses the theory of etymology and its explanatory power, especially in Plato and in Neoplatonism. (2) “Linguistic issues” discusses various etymologizing techniques and the status of etymology, which was criticized and openly rejected by some authors. (3) “Poetical practices of etymology” investigates the ubiquitous presence of etymological reflections in learned poetry, whatever the genre, didactic, aetiological or epic. (4) “Etymology and word-plays” addresses the vexed question of the limit between a mere pun and a real etymological explanation, which is more than once difficult to establish. The wide range of genres and authors and the interplay between theoretical reflection and applied practice shows clearly the importance of etymology in Greek thought.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of tables -- Introduction -- Part I: Etymological Practices and Philosophical Issues -- Naming the Art, or the Art of Naming: The Etymology of τέχνη (technē) in Plato’s Cratylus -- Etymological Proximities and Onomastics: From Aristotle to Ammonius of Hermeias -- Part II: Linguistic Issues -- Implicit Elements in Scholiasts’ Etymological Analyses -- On Enantiosemy in Antiquity and its Modern Outcomes -- Ὅτι ἀλαζών ἐστι μάρτυς ἡ ἐτυμολογία: Galen on Etymology, Theory and Practice -- Part III: Poetical Practices of Etymology -- Etymological Explanations of Fish-names in Oppian’s Halieutica: Between Poetry, Philology, and Scholarship -- Etymology as a Poetic Resource among the Poets of Alexandria -- The Use of Etymology in Apollodorus’ ΠΕΡΙ ΘΕΩΝ and in its Reader Porphyry: Scientific or Ideological? -- Part IV: Etymology and Word-Plays -- Fallacious Etymology and Puns: Ptolemy Chennus’ Sham Homeric Questions -- To Play (and to Have Fun) with Literature: Comic Wordplay in Greek Poetry -- List of Contributors -- Index Notionum -- Index Nominum -- Index Verborum -- Index Locorum