Screen LibraryAncient Greek dialects and early authors : introduction to the dialect mixture in homer, with notes on lyric and herodotus /
This volume provides linguistic background to the ancient authors and commentary on both epigraphic and literary dialect texts. By means of dialectally and chronologically arranged texts, translated and provided with running commentary, Gary Miller compares early authors against epigraphic records t...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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This volume provides linguistic background to the ancient authors and commentary on both epigraphic and literary dialect texts. By means of dialectally and chronologically arranged texts, translated and provided with running commentary, Gary Miller compares early authors against epigraphic records to facilitate an understanding of Homer, choral lyric, and authors from different dialect areas. |
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1 online resource(xxxiii,442pages) : illustrations Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9781614512950 |
| Index Number: | PA502 |
| CLC: | H791 |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Dating and Other Conventions -- Greek Authors and Their Abbreviations -- Bibliographical Abbreviations -- General Abbreviations -- 1. Indo-European Background -- 2. Anatolian -- 3. Pre-Greek -- 4. Greece, Greek, and Its Dialects -- 5. Phonological Systems of Greek through Time -- 6. Evolution of the Greek Vowel System -- 7. Chronology of Changes in Attic and Ionic -- 8. Poetic Heritage -- 9. Homer and Early Epic -- 10. Argives, Danaans, and Achaeans -- 11. The Language of Achilles -- 12. Homer as Artist: Language and Textual Iconicity -- 13. Attic and West Ionic -- 14. Central Ionic -- 15. East Ionic -- 16. Northern Doric -- 17. Laconian-Messenian -- 18. Insular Doric -- 19. Boeotian and Thessalian -- 20. Lesbian -- 21. Arcadian, Cyprian, and Mycenaean Phonological and Morphological Sketch -- 22. Arcadian, Cyprian, Pamphylian -- 23. Mycenaean -- 24. Dialect Mixture in the Epic Tradition -- 25. Alleged Phases in Epic Development -- 26. Special Phonetic Symbols -- References -- Index of Cited Passages -- Greek Index -- Subject Index. |