Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics

Abstract The present article contains a brief history of the ancient understanding of figures in language. The ancient Greek term skhêma, ‘figure’, appears in two closely interwoven and interacting, but nonetheless separate, discourses: grammar and rhetoric. Both discourses developed the word ‘figure’ as a technical term: in the discourse of grammar, the word refers to a phonological, morphological, or syntactical formation of words (from Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and the Alexandrian grammatical tradition up …

Abstract The literature of ancient Greece has long been a source of inspiration for filmmakers, and has been adapted for the screen in a variety of different ways. Although popular judgments may focus on a film’s perceived fidelity to an ancient text, there are many problems associated with this concept, just as there are in the process of linguistic translation from ancient Greek; as such, adaptation and translation may usefully be seen as analogous processes. Films such as Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mépris (1963) and Pasolini’s works based on Greek tragedy offer particularly int…

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