The Language of Literature: Linguistic Approaches to Classical Texts

by Rutger J. Allan

This volume is a collection of papers revealing the largely unexplored boundary between linguistic and literary approaches to classical texts. Eleven contributions by various scholars discuss a wide range of linguistic and literary apects of classical texts: the narratee in the prologues of Sophocles' Trachiniae and of Euripides, the chronology in Pindar's Odes, the relation between tense-aspect and Discourse Modes in Thucydides, Xenophon, Vergil...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004156542
• ISBN13: 9789004156548
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.8"