Linguistics into Interpretation: Speeches of War in Herodotus VII 5 & 8-18 (Mnemosyne, Supplements, 195) - Hardcover

Ophuijsen, Johannes M. Van; Stork, Peter

 
9789004114555: Linguistics into Interpretation: Speeches of War in Herodotus VII 5 & 8-18 (Mnemosyne, Supplements, 195)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9004114556 ISBN 13: 9789004114555
Publisher: Brill, 1999

Synopsis

This volume is a sustained exercise in the genre of secondary literature which aims at explaining a literary work as much as possible in and through the author's own words.
A crucial passage in direct speech by different speakers from the History of Herodotus, the earliest long Greek prose text, has been made the object of a systematic effort to distill and analyse the linguistic characteristics relevant to its interpretation, by confronting it with the rest of the work as well as with earlier and contemporary writings.
This is done with the primary aim of placing the interpretation of a major author on the firmest ground available, the author's ipsissimi verba. The result, made accessible by full indexes, will prove helpful to readers of any part of Herodotus' History.

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About the Author

Johannes M. van Ophuijsen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy in the American University of Beirut. He has published on ancient dialectic and linguistic theory. An essay on the linguistic articulation of arguments in Plato's Phaedo is in his co-authored Two Studies in Attic Particle Usage. (Lysias & Plato, 1993).
Peter Stork is Assistant Professor of Greek in Leiden University. His publications include The Aspectual Usage of the Dynamic Infinitive in Herodotus (1982) and, as co-author, Two Studies in the Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek (1996).

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Publisher
Brill
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9004114556
ISBN 13 
9789004114555
Binding
Leather Bound
Edition number
1
Number of pages
330