Chronology, Dialect, and Style in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry - Tom McConnell

Chronology, Dialect, and Style in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

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Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-893231-4 (ISBN)
123,45 inkl. MwSt
Chronology, Dialect, and Style in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry concerns the language of epic poetry of Ancient Greece. It focuses on various unique texts, whose authors and dates of composition we know next to nothing, and uses linguistic features to theorise the possibility of dating the poems.
Early Greek hexameter poetry and its language is the focus of this book, and McConnell addresses the question of why the Greek in which this poetry is composed is so special and unique in ancient literature. It has long been maintained that various features of the artificial dialect of the poems gradually fell out of use as time went by, and therefore that we can use the poems' language to date the texts. This book takes a deep dive into the linguistic features in question and the wider problems in extrapolating chronology from their distribution, all while advocating for the importance of statistical rigour.

Part I contains five chapters which are devoted to different linguistic phenomena, and problems in quantifying them are set out in each. Part II argues that chronology is just one part of a much wider picture, and that not only dialect but also style is a highly salient factor in understanding language variation throughout the poems. This notion of style is linked to the linguistic concept of register, and it is argued that the prehistory of different kinds of poetry led to the creation of different registers for different (sub)genres within the corpus. McConnell therefore takes a linguistic approach to understanding the literary history of early Greek hexameter poetry.

Since completing his DPhil in 2019, Tom has been teaching and researching at Oxford University, at Oriel and Balliol colleges.

1: Introduction
Part 1. Individual Linguistic Features
2: Thematic Genitives in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
3: The Digamma in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
4: Thematic Dative Plurals in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
5: Tmesis in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
Part 2. The Wider Picture
6: Summary of the Key Findings of Part 1
7: Homeric Speech, Narrative, and Style
8: Register in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
9: Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.1.2025
Reihe/Serie Oxford Classical Monographs
Zusatzinfo 4 figures
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-893231-6 / 0198932316
ISBN-13 978-0-19-893231-4 / 9780198932314
Zustand Neuware
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