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.

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Publisher

De Gruyter

Year

2019

ISBN

9783110621808

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Index of Passages

Alcman (PMG)
fr. 1.49 1 n. 2
[Ammonius] (Nickau)
De adfinium vocabulorum differentia 1 2
Anthologia Palatina
10.101 1
Antiatticist (Valente)
α 18 1
α 107 1
α 135 1
Apollonius Dyscolus (Schneider)
GG 2.1.1, 74.10 1 n. 2
GG 2.1.1, 77.5 1 with n. 2, 3, 4
GG 2.1.1, 77.10 1
Apollonius of Rhodes
Argon. 1.361−362 1
Argon. 4.802 1
Argon. 4.1470−1471 1
Aretaeus of Cappadocia
De causis et signis
diuturnorum
morborum 4.12.3.4–5 1
Aristophanes
Nub. 254 1 with n. 2
Plut. 1034–1035 1
fr. 233 K.-A. 1
Aristotle
Metaph. 1091b.8 1
Poet. 4 1449a.24–28 1
Rh. 3.1 1403b.26–31 1
Rh. 3.5 1407b.14–17 1
Arrian
Anab. 7.6.2 1
Bacchylides
3.78–82 1
5.180–181 1
8.26–27 1
Callimachus
Hymn. 5.37 1
Hymn. 6.13 1
Iamb. 13.18 1
CEG
302 1 n. 2
Charon of Lampsacus (FGrHist)
262 F 10 1 with n. 2
CLOD
313A 1 n. 2, 3
430.4 1
2028A 1
Corinna (PMG)
fr. 654 col. iii ll. 32–41 1
fr. 662 1 n. 2, 3 n. 4, 5, 6 n. 7, 8
fr. 663 1 n.2, 3
fr. 673 1 n. 2, 3
fr. 681 1 n. 2
Cosmas Indicopleustes (Wolska-Conus)
Topographia Christiana 5.26 1
[Demosthenes]
7.42 1
Schol. 7.42 Dilts 1
Derveni Papyrus (Kouremenos/
Parassoglou/Tsantsanoglou)
col. 23.11 1 with n. 2
DGE
726.44 1 n. 2
Diodorus Siculus
3.21.1 1, 2
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Comp. 17.2–15 1
Comp. 18.10–11 1
Dem. 48 1
Thuc. 5 1, 2 n. 3
Empedocles (D.-K.)
B 17.1–2 = 16–17 1
B 20.7 1
B 28.1 1, 2 with n. 3
B 61.3 1
P.Strasb. a(ii).28 1
Epicharmus (K.-A.)
fr. 32.12 1 n. 2
fr. 35.3 1 n. 2
fr. 76 1
fr. 80 1, 2, 3
fr. 92 1
fr. 100 1
fr. 113.12 1 n. 2
fr. 113.415 1
fr. 120 1
fr. 185 1
[Epicharmus] (K.-A.)
fr. 256 1
fr. 275.1 1
Epimerismi Homerici (Dyck)
μ 65 ( = Gloss. Ital. no. 35 K.-A.) 1
Etymologicum Magnum (Lasserre/
Livadaras)
α 2087 1 n. 2, 3
Euripides
Med. 974 1
fr. 716 Kannicht 1
Eusebius
Vita
Constantini 4.65.3 1
Eustathius
De emendanda vita monachica
152.10 Metzler 1
Il. 1.32.28−31
van der Valk 1
Getty Hexameters (Jordan/Kotansky)
col. I 10 1
col. I 11–12 1
Gregory of Nazianzus
Orationes 40.32
(= 36.404C Migne) 1
Hecataeus of Miletus (FGrHist)
1 F 163 1, 2 n. 3
1 F 204 1 with n. 2
1 F 229 1 with n. 2
1 F 282 1, 2 n. 3
1 F 293 1, 2 n. 3
Heraclitus (D.K.)
B 26 1
Hermogenes (Rabe)
Id. 411.12–25 1
Herodotus
5.49.2–3 1
5.60.1–2 1
7.14.1 1
Hesiod
Op. 591 1
Theog. 401 1, 2 n. 3, 4, 5 n. 6
fr. 245 M.-W. 1, 2 n. 3
Hesychius (Latte/Cunningham)
α 1672 1 n. 2
α 6415 1
α 8282 1, 2 n. 3
β 693 1
Hippocrates
Epid.
5.43 1
5.98 1
7.20 1
7.29 1
7.54 1
7.62 1
Hittite Laws
§ 147/*36 1
Homer
Il.
1.234−237 1
2.272−275 1
7.438 1
8.309–334 1
8.335–337 1, 2
8.407 1
9.232–239 1
10.141–142 1
13.495 1, 2, 3
12.40–46 1
14.521 1 with n. 2
15.354−356 1
17.19–23 1
17.132–137 1
17.541–542 1
18.225−227 1
20.36–37 1
21.573–580 1
22.118 1, 2
23.112 1
23.459–464 1
24.114 1
24.134 1
24.191−192 1
24.293 1
24.311 1
Od.
1.68–69 1
3.18 1 n. 2
4.38 1 with n. 2, 3, 4
9.348 1 n. 2
11.164−168 1
11.494 1
14.134 1
14.213 1
17.371 1
22.402−403 1
23.237 1
Schol. A
Il. 2.239 Erbse 1 n. 2, 3
Schol. D
Il. 8.337 van Thiel 1, 2
Schol. Aim
Il. 19.384 Erbse 1 n. 2, 3
Homeric Hymns
Hymn. Hom.
Merc. 158 1 n. 2
IEleusis
300.65–67 1
IG
VII 3172 IV (H) ll. 61–75 (= Migeotte no. 13)
1, 2 n. 3, 4
VII 505 1, 2
IGDOP
23.7 1 n. 2
IK.Priene
398.4 1 n. 2
IOropos
93 1, 2
Isocrates
2.34 1
5.25–27 1, 2 n. 3
KBo
5.3 iii 32 1
18.28, 9 1
KUB
29.11, 1b 1
29.11, 7−8b 1
Leo Diaconus (Hase)
Historia 137.10−15 1
Livy
26.24.11 1
38.41.4−7 1
[Longinus]
Subl. 29.1 1
LXX
Exodus 26.1 1 with n. 2
37.14 1 n. 2
Isaiah 54.2 1
Lamentations 1.12 1
1.18 1
2 Maccabees 3.17 1
Psalms 68 (69).26–27 1
Sirach 26.6 1
Lysias (Carey)
fr. 288 1
Moeris (Hansen)
χ 5 1
Nicander
Alex. 81–82 1
Orus (Alpers)
fr. 13 1 n. 2, 3
Panyassis
fr. 17.7–9 Bernabé =
fr. 13.7–9 Davies 1
fr. 28 Matthews =
fr. 31 Bernabé 1
Parmenides (D.-K.)
B 1.24 1
B 6.5 1
P.Grenf.
2.70.25 1
Pherecydes of Syrus (D.-K.)
B 1 1
[Philoxenus] (Theodoridis)
fr. 690** 1
Photius (Theodoridis)
α 2724 1 n. 2, 3
α 3169 1 n. 2
κ 660 1
κ 662 1
Phrynichus (Fischer)
Eclogae 20 1
Eclogae 39 1
Eclogae 41 1
Eclogae 54 1
Pindar
Nem.3.80–82 1
Ol. 1.36–42 1
Ol. 4.16 1
Ol. 9.43–46 1
Pyth. 2.72–73 1
Pyth. 8.1–4 1
fr. 109.2 S.-M. 1
Plato
Leg. 815a.1-7 1
Pollux (Bethe)
4.122 1
Polybius
9.21.1 1
9.43.4 1
P.Sorb.
2.69 1
[Ptolemy] (Heylbut)
De differentia vocabulorum
p. 399 1
P. Würzb.
19 1
Rhinthon (K.-A.)
fr. 6 1
SEG
22.390 1
Sophocles
Phil. 791–792 1
Sophron (K.-A.)
fr. 56 1 n. 2
fr. 86 1 n. 2
Synagoge (Cunningham)
α 648 1
α 1091 1
σ 122 1
Synagoge versio codicis B (Σb)
(Cunningham)
α 2035 1
α 2238 1
α 2405 1
Theodorus Prodromus (Hörandner)
Carmina historica
11.131–132 1
Theophanes Continuatus (Featherstone/Codoñer)
Chronographia
4.41.15−16 1
Thomas Magister (Ritschl)
σ 333 1
Vita sanctorum Davidis, Symeonis et
Georgii Mitylenae (van den Gheyn)
42.22−24 1
Xenophon
An. 2.5.13 1
Eq. 1.4 1
10.6 1
Mem. 3.10.5 1

Notes

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
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