The language of literature : linguistic approaches to classical texts / / edited by Rutger J. Allan, Michel Buijs.

This volume is a collection of papers revealing the largely unexplored boundary between linguistic and literary approaches to classical texts. Eleven contributions by various scholars discuss a wide range of linguistic and literary aspects of classical texts: the narratee in the prologues of Sophocl...

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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Amsterdam studies in classical philology, v. 13
Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 13.
Physical Description:1 online resource (267 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • General introduction / Rutger J. Allan and Michel Buijs
  • Sophocles Trachiniae 1-48, Euripidean prologues, and their audiences / Irene J.F. de Jong
  • Mythical chronology in the Odes of Pindar : the cases of Pythian 10 and Olympian 3 / Lukas van den Berge
  • Discourse modes and bases in Vergil's Aeneid / Suzanne M. Adema
  • Discourse modes and the use of tenses in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Caroline H.M. Kroon
  • Sense and sentence complexity : sentence structure, sentence connection, and tense-aspect as indicators of narrative mode in Thucydides' Histories / Rutger J. Allan
  • Aspectual differences and narrative technique : Xenophon's Hellenica & Agesilaus / Michel Buijs
  • L'opposition aspectuelle 'present' : aoriste dans la Grande loi de Gortyne / Jean Lallot
  • Intentions and future realisations in Herodotus / Gerry C. Wakker
  • Adjective ordering in Herodotus : a pragmatic explanation / Stephanie J. Bakker
  • From Demetrius to Dik : ancient and modern views on Greek and Latin word order / Casper C. de Jonge.