Studies in The Language of Homer

Examines the Odyssey as well as the Iliad.

G. P. Shipp (Author)

9780521038263, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 July 2007

396 pages
22.7 x 15.1 x 2.2 cm, 0.593 kg

Professor Shipp's purpose in the first edition of this book (published in 1953) was 'to examine in as much detail as possible the development of the language of the Iliad in some of its typical features, with careful attention to the spoken dialects involved and to the influence of metre'. In the second edition he widens the scope of his work to examine the Odyssey as well as the Iliad, and he extends its detail to include syntax as well as grammatical forms and to cover questions of vocabulary more comprehensively. The author's earlier conclusions are shown to be confirmed, and an important further result for the Odyssey has been to show the typical lateness of the language of moralizing passages.

Preface to second edition
Preface to first edition
List of abbreviations
Part I. The Language of Similes and Related Questions: Introductory
1. Localization of rare late features from Chantraine's Grammaire Homérique (Tome I - Phonétique et Morphologie)
2. Localization of rare late features from Chantraine's Grammaire Homérique (Tome II - Syntax)
3. Contraction in Homer
4. Vocabulary
5. Various aspects of Homeric language and metrical technique
6. General remarks on similes
Part II. Distribution of Abnormal Features: Introductory
7. Iliad A-I
8. Iliad ?-X
9. Odyssey
Subject index
Greek index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]