Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek

by Coulter H. George

Ancient Greek expressed the agents of passive verbs by a variety of means, and this work explores the language's development of prepositions which marked the agents of passive verbs. After an initial look at the pragmatics of agent constructions, it turns to this central question: under what conditions is the agent expressed by a construction other than hupo with the genitive? The book traces the development of these expressions from Homer through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521847893
• ISBN13: 9780521847896
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.8"