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A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language
Egbert J. Bakker (Edited by)
9781118782910, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 27 December 2013
704 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 3.1 cm, 1.061 kg
A comprehensive account of the language of Ancient Greek civilization in a single volume, with contributions from leading international scholars covering the historical, geographical, sociolinguistic, and literary perspectives of the language.
List of Figures viii List of Tables ix Notes on Contributors xii Symbols Used xviii Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works xix Abbreviations of Modern Sources xxviii Linguistic and Other Abbreviations xxxv 1 Introduction 1 PART I The Sources 9 2 Mycenaean Texts: The Linear B Tablets 11 3 Phoinikeia Grammata: An Alphabet for the Greek Language 25 4 Inscriptions 47 5 Papyri 62 6 The Manuscript Tradition 69 PART II The Language 83 7 Phonology 85 8 Morphology and Word Formation 104 9 Semantics and Vocabulary 120 10 Syntax 134 11 Pragmatics: Speech and Text 151 PART III Greek in Time and Space: Historical and Geographical Connections 169 12 Greek and Proto-Indo-European 171 13 Mycenaean Greek 189 14 Greek Dialects in the Archaic and Classical Ages 200 15 Greek and the Languages of Asia Minor to the Classical Period 213 16 Linguistic Diversity in Asia Minor during the Empire: Koine and Non-Greek Languages 228 17 Greek in Egypt 253 18 Jewish and Christian Greek 267 19 Greek and Latin Bilingualism 281 PART IV Greek in Context 295 20 Register Variation 297 21 Female Speech 311 22 Forms of Address and Markers of Status 327 23 Technical Languages: Science and Medicine 338 PART V Greek as Literature 355 24 Inherited Poetics 357 25 Language and Meter 370 26 Literary Dialects 388 27 The Greek of Epic 401 28 The Language of Greek Lyric Poetry 424 29 The Greek of Athenian Tragedy 441 30 Kunstprosa: Philosophy, History, Oratory 455 31 The Literary Heritage as Language: Atticism and the Second Sophistic 468 PART VI The Study of Greek 483 32 Greek Philosophers on Language 485 33 The Birth of Grammar in Greece 499 34 Language as a System in Ancient Rhetoric and Grammar 512 PART VII Beyond Antiquity 525 35 Byzantine Literature and the Classical Past 527 36 Medieval and Early Modern Greek 539 37 Modern Greek 564 Bibliography 588 Index 639
Egbert J. Bakker
Silvia Ferrara
Roger D. Woodard
Rudolf Wachter
Arthur Verhoogt
Niels Gaul
Philomen Probert
Michael Weiss
Michael Clarke
Evert van Emde Boas and Luuk Huitink
Egbert J. Bakker
Jeremy Rau
Rupert Thompson
Stephen Colvin
Shane Hawkins
Claude Brixhe
Sofía Torallas Tovar
Coulter H. George
Bruno Rochette
Andreas Willi
Thorsten Fögen
Eleanor Dickey
Francesca Schironi
Joshua T. Katz
Gregory Nagy
Olga Tribulato
Olav Hackstein
Michael Silk
Richard Rutherford
Victor Bers
Lawrence Kim
Casper C. de Jonge and Johannes M. van Ophuijsen
Andreas U. Schmidhauser
James I. Porter
Staffan Wahlgren
David Holton and Io Manolessou
Peter Mackridge
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
