The Language of Literature: Linguistic Approaches to Classical Texts (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology - Vol. 13)

267 Pages·2007·1.62 MB·English

by  Rutger J. Allan

The Language of Literature
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Amsterdam Studies in
Classical Philology
Editorial Board
Albert Rijksbaron
Irene J.F. de Jong
VOLUME 13
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The Language of Literature
Linguistic Approaches to Classical Texts
Edited by
Rutger J. Allan
Michel Buijs
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2007
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CONTENTS

Bibliography of Albert Rijksbaron ................................................... vii

List of Contributors ............................................................................ xv

Chapter One General Introduction ................................................ 1
Rutger J. Allan and Michel Buijs

Chapter Two Sophocles Trachiniae 1-48, Euripidean
Prologues, and Their Audiences ....................................................... 7
Irene J.F. de Jong

Chapter Three Mythical Chronology in the Odes of Pindar.
The Cases of Pythian 10 and Olympian 3 ........................................... 29
Lukas van den Berge

Chapter Four Discourse Modes and Bases in Vergil’s Aeneid .... 42
Suzanne M. Adema

Chapter Five Discourse Modes and the Use of Tenses
in Ovid’s Metamorphoses ..................................................................... 65
Caroline H.M. Kroon

Chapter Six Sense and Sentence Complexity.
Sentence Structure, Sentence Connection, and
Tense-aspect as Indicators of Narrative Mode in Thucydides’
Histories ................................................................................................. 93
Rutger J. Allan

Chapter Seven Aspectual Differences and Narrative
Technique: Xenophon’s Hellenica & Agesilaus ................................. 122
Michel Buijs
vi CONTENTS
Chapter Eight L’opposition aspectuelle ‘Présent’ — Aoriste
dans la Grande Loi de Gortyne ......................................................... 154
Jean Lallot

Chapter Nine Intentions and Future Realisations
in Herodotus ........................................................................................ 168
Gerry C. Wakker

Chapter Ten Adjective Ordering in Herodotus:
a Pragmatic Explanation ................................................................... 188
Stéphanie J. Bakker

Chapter Eleven From Demetrius to Dik. Ancient and Modern
Views on Greek and Latin Word Order ........................................... 211
Casper C. de Jonge

Bibliography ........................................................................................ 233

Index Locorum .................................................................................... 243
General Index ...................................................................................... 249
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALBERT RIJKSBARON

11966
Translation [into Dutch] of Lucretius 1, 921-950, Hermeneus 37, 173-174.

1972
‘De Griekse genitivus’, Lampas 5, 68-77.
‘(cid:2)(cid:3)(cid:4)(cid:5) en (cid:6)(cid:7)’, Lampas 5, 465-477.

1974
Review of C.M.J. Sicking, Hoofdstukken uit de Griekse ‘syntaxis’, Lampas 7, 207-218.
‘Het praesens historicum in het Oudgrieks’, Handelingen van het XXXIIe Nederlands
Filologencongres, Amsterdam: Holland Universiteitspers, 146-148.

1976
Temporal and Causal Conjunctions in Ancient Greek. With Special Reference to the Use of (cid:2)(cid:3)(cid:4)(cid:5)
and (cid:6)(cid:7) in Herodotus, Amsterdam: Hakkert [Diss.; XVII, 227 pp].
‘How Does a Messenger begin his Speech? Some Observations on the Opening-Lines
of Euripidean Messenger-Speeches’, in J.M. Bremer e.a. (eds.), Miscellanea
Tragica in Honorem J.C. Kamerbeek, Amsterdam: Hakkert, 293-309.

1979
Review article of H. Hettrich, Kontext und Aspekt in der altgriechischen Prosa Herodots,
Lingua 48, 223-257.

1980
‘Ancient Greek Relative Clauses and Functional Grammar’, in S. Daalder & M.
Gerritsen (eds), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1980, Amsterdam: North-Holland
Publ. Co., 121-127.
‘De semantiek van Griekse hypothetische bijzinnen’, Lampas 13, 130-146.

1981
‘Relative Clause Formation in Ancient Greek’, in A.M. Bolkestein e.a. (eds.),
Predication and Expression in Functional Grammar, London: Academic Press, 235-
259.
‘Deux notes. Esch. Pers. 598; Eur. Or. 1281’, Mnemosyne 34, 388-390.
Translation of ‘De Eed van Hippocrates’, in H.M. Beliën e.a., Een geschiedenis van de
Oude Wereld. Bronnen, Haarlem: Gottmer, 123.

1984
The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek. An Introduction, Amsterdam:
Gieben [XII, 176 pp.].
‘Chariton 8.1.4 und Aristot. Poet. 1449b28’, Philologus 128, 306-307.
‘Het Griekse perfectum: subject contra object’, Lampas 17, 403-420.

1986
‘The Pragmatics and Semantics of Conditional and Temporal Clauses. Some Evidence
from Dutch and Classical Greek’, Working Papers in Functional Grammar 13 [50
pp].
‘The Treatment of the Greek Middle Voice by the Ancient Grammarians’, in H. Joly
(ed.), Actes du Colloque International 'Philosophies du langage et théories linguistiques
dans l'Antiquité’. (Grenoble 1985), Bruxelles: Les Editions Ousia, 427-444.