Greek and the Greeks : language, poetry, drama
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Greek and the Greeks : language, poetry, drama
(Collected papers / K.J. Dover, v. 1)
B. Blackwell, 1987
- : U.S.
- : U.K.
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book contains the majority of Sir Kenneth Dover's published articles on the Greek language and Greek poetry, including styles and registers in Greek, Archilochus, aspects of tragedy and the comic techniques of Aristophanes. Over the last 40 years his contributions to the study of Greek language and history have ranged from a study of Greek word order to analyses of Greek morality and sexuality. He believes that no answer to any question about the ancient Greeks can claim to be more probable than its alternatives unless it is properly founded on what Greek texts actually say. The interpretation of Greek texts require two things: one is perfectionism in matters of language, and the other is willingness to make use of the experience of other cultures, including our own.
Table of Contents
- Song-language in pre-literate culture
- the colloquial stratum in classical Attic prose
- the language of classical Attic documentary inscriptions
- "E" in the Chalkis Decree
- some types of abnormal word order in Attic comedy
- review of Guiraud's "La Phrase Nominale"
- review of Bergson's "Zur Stellung des Adjektivs in der alteren Griechischen"
- review of Thesleff's "Studies in the Styles of Plato"
- the portrayal of moral evaluation in Greek poetry
- the poetry of Archilochus
- review of Lasserre and Bonnard's "Archilochus"
- review of Tarditi's "Archilochus" and Plato's "Tyrtaeus"
- Pindar's "Olympian Odes"
- Pindar's "Isthmian Odes"
- some neglected aspects of Agamemnon's dilemma
- the red fabrics in the "Agamemnon"
- the political aspect of Aeschylus' "Eumenides"
- translation - the Speakable and the Unspeakable
- review of Brooks Otis' "Cosmos and Tragedy"
- Aeschylus
- Greek comedy
- Plato Comicus - "Presbeis" and "Hellas"
- the style of Aristophanes
- language and character in Aristophanes
- the skene in Aristophanes
- portrait-masks in Aristophanes
- review of Ehrenberg's "The People of Aristophanes"
- review of Taillardat's "Les Images d' Aristophane"
- notes on Aristophanes' "Acharnians"
- Aristophanes' "Knights".
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