Language Change in Epic Greek and Other Poetic Traditions /
Homeric language fascinates because of its many oddities with respect to other forms of Ancient Greek. From which dialects did this poetic language take shape and develop? In which ways did individual poets alter the language? In this volume you will find twelve cutting-edge studies on linguistic ch...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Leiden Studies in Indo-European ;
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Call Number: P57.I4
- List of Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Lucien van Beek
- 1 Prosody, Metre and Reflexes of * r̥ in Epic Greek: The Case of ῥέζω versus ἔρδω
- Lucien van Beek
- 2 Changement linguistique et réaction de la langue épique: sur hom. εὐηγεν(ής), εὐρυπυλές et χαλκοβατές
- Alain Blanc
- 3 Homeric Constructions, Their Productivity, and the Development of Epic Greek
- Chiara Bozzone
- 4 Metrical Constraint and Dialect Borrowings: ἔσεται, ἐσσεῖται and the Homeric Futures of the Verb 'To Be'
- Albio C. Cassio
- 5 A Night Reconnaissance: On Νύξ and Her Aeolic (?) Epithets in Homer
- Stefan Höfler
- 6 The Changing Use of Tmesis in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
- Thomas McConnell
- 7 The Morphology and Syntax of the Imperative in Homeric Prayers
- Simon Pulleyn
- 8 Ṯamūd : Reading Traditions; the Arabic Grammatical Tradition; and the Quranic Text
- Marijn van Putten
- 9 Archaism, Innovation and Modernization in Homeric Language
- Jeremy Rau
- 10 Alleged Anatolian Phraseological Borrowings in Homer's Language: A Reconsideration
- Zsolt Simon
- 11 Sound Change in the Hebrew Reading Tradition
- Benjamin Suchard
- 12 Dialectology and the Origin of Iliad and Odyssey
- Rudolf Wachter
- Index Verborum
- Subject index.