Colloquial Expressions in Greek Tragedy: Revised and Enlarged Edition of P.T. Stevens's 'Colloquial Expressions in Euripides'

by Philip Theodore Stevens

Stevens began identifying and collecting colloquialisms in Tragedy in 1937, refined his definitions in 1945 and finished his work with the monograph upon Euripides of 1976. This revised and enlarged edition assesses the contribution to the field by subsequent scholars. It adds many expressions to Stevens's list, which is now divided into two categories: expressions that are confidently identified as colloquial, and almost as many that are probable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3515120556
• ISBN13: 9783515120555
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
• Length: 255 Pages