Epiploke: Rhythmical Continuity and Poetic Structure in Greek Lyric

by Thomas Cole

Ancient metricians saw Greek verse in essentially paradigmatic terms, as a mosaic of discrete feet or phrases, each with its own name and each conforming, within a permitted range of variation, to some fixed model. The syntagmatic alternative to this view offered here represents the first attempt since the early nineteenth century to make a decisive break with inherited metrical categories and assumptions. It argues that feet and phrases, to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674258223
• ISBN13: 9780674258228
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"