Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics

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Subject: Language And Linguistics
General Editor: Georgios K. Giannakis
Associate Editors: Vit Bubenik, Emilio Crespo, Chris Golston, Alexandra Lianeri, Silvia Luraghi, Stephanos Matthaios
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The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (EAGLL) is a unique work that brings together the latest research from across a range of disciplines which contribute to our knowledge of Ancient Greek. It is an indispensable research tool for scholars and students of Greek, of linguistics, and of other Indo-European languages, as well as of Biblical literature.
Subscriptions: brill.comFigures (skhḗmata), Ancient Theories of
(2,649 words)
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 …
Date:
2013-11-01
Film Adaptation and Translation
(2,027 words)
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…
Date:
2013-11-01
F (index)
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Fabb, Nigel Compounding/Derivation/Construction Morphology
Facella, Antonino Greek in Sicily in Late Antiquity
factitive Aorist Formation | Contract Verbs | Denominal Verbs
factitive-causative aspect Deverbative Verbs
Fagles, Robert Greek Lyric Poetry, Translation | Homer, Translation
faithfulness constraints Optimality and Greek
Faliscan Alphabet, Descendants of
Falk, Alice Drama Translation
Falk, Y. N. Subject
Faltz, Leonard M. Reflexives
family tree Indo-European Historical Background
Fanning, Buist M. Lexical Aspect (Aktionsart) | Tense and Aspect from…