| Description |
262 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava.. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 171 |
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 171
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| Contents |
Introduction / Egbert J. Bakker -- Ch. 1. Verbal Aspect and Mimetic Description in Thucydides / Egbert J. Bakker -- Ch. 2. Interpreting Adjective Position in Herodotus / Helma Dik -- Ch. 3. Towards a Rhetoric of Ancient Scientific Discourse: Some Formal Characteristics of Greek Medical and Philosophical Texts (Hippocratic Corpus, Aristotle) / Philip J. van der Eijk -- Ch. 4. The Grammar of the So-Called Historical Present in Ancient Greek / C. M. J. Sicking and P. Stork -- Ch. 5. Figures of Speech and their Lookalikes: Two Further Exercises in the Pragmatics of the Greek Sentence / S. R. Slings -- Ch. 6. Modal Particles and Different Points of View in Herodotus and Thucydides / Gerry C. Wakker |
| Summary |
Looking at its subject from the standpoint of modern discourse analysis, this study deals with problems of style and grammar in Greek and Latin texts. Its aim is to shed light on the interaction between the mechanism of the Greek and Latin languages as interactive tools and the structure of the texts that have come down to us. The interpretive orientation offered differs from most literary studies in its taking linguistic observations as point of departure, and its considering grammar as a positive factor in the interpretive process. It differs from most linguistic studies in the field in demonstrating the importance of linguistic methodology for classical philology in general. The book contains explorations of various authors, genres, and text types, preceded by an introductory essay on the role of grammar in philology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. no:171 0169-8958 |
| Subject |
Greek language -- Grammar.
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Greek literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Language and culture -- Greece.
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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| Author |
Bakker, Egbert J.
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| LC no. |
97008213 |
| ISBN |
9004107304 (alk. paper) |
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