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Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Late Antique Narrative Fiction: Apocryphal Acta and the Greek Novel in the Fifth-Century Life and Miracles of Thekla

Late Antique Narrative Fiction: Apocryphal Acta and the Greek Novel in the Fifth-Century Life and Miracles of Thekla Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Harvard University ‘The popular demand in fiction is always for a mixed form.’ [1] I. Introduction When it comes to the question of Christianity and narrative fiction, one is frequently presented with the apparent dilemma of faith and… Read more

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Preface to the 2008 online edition

Preface to the 2008 online edition P§1. This online book, “born digital” in 2008, stems from an earlier printed book, Greek: A Survey of Recent Work, co-authored by my late teacher Fred W. Householder and myself. It was published in 1972 by Mouton in the Hague (http://www.mouton-publishers.com). P§2. As Householder noted in an unnumbered introductory footnote (p. 15), I was the author of the following… Read more

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Introduction

Introduction 0§1. This work is eclectic. It is neither a bibliographical survey nor an exhaustive chronicle of progress. The main purpose is simply to explore various trends in research on the Greek language. Part I deals with generalities, while Part II concentrates on various different levels of linguistic analysis: phonology, morphology, syntax, etymology / vocabulary, and dialectology. {16|17}   … Read more

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Part I: Generalities

Part I: Generalities I§1. The heading etymology / vocabulary, just mentioned, is of and by itself an indication of recent trends in the study of Greek. I§2. I postpone the details until we reach that heading. ⊛I begin here by making a general statement about the study of Greek words, which requires both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.⊛ (In using these terms synchronic and diachronic, I have in… Read more

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Part II: Specifics

Part II: Specifics Phonology II§1. Despite the attestation of Greek as far back in time as the second millennium BCE, a chronological chasm remains between this language and the proto-language reconstructed as Indo-European. What I just said is most apparent on the phonological level. The necessity for positing a multitude of phases and patterns of phonology which must have been operative at some early point in… Read more

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Part III: Conclusions

Part III: Conclusions III§1. For an understanding of the Greek language as the complex and variegated system that it is, the surest approach remains simply the mastery of such synoptic and exhaustive treatments as have been surveyed. The texts needed for further analysis are generally accessible. For an example, let us consider the Greek dialectal inscriptions; not only are the publications of epigraphically-attested dialectal material thoroughly listed in… Read more

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Bibliography

Bibliography Adrados, F. R. 1952. La Dialectología griega como fuente para el estudio de las migraciones indoeuropeas en Grecia. Acta Salmanticensia 5/3. Salamanca. Ahrens, H. L. 1839 / 1843. De Graecae linguae dialectis. 2 vols. Göttingen. Allen, W. S. 1958. “Some problems of palatalization in Greek.” Lingua 7:113–133. ———. 1966. “Prosody and prosodies in… Read more

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Mary Ebbott, Imagining Illegitimacy: Introduction

Introduction. Metaphors of Illegitimacy On a billboard advertisement for a DNA paternity testing service, the selling line is “because you want to know beyond a shadow of a doubt.” [1] Doubt over the child’s parentage casts a metaphorical shadow, one that may be imagined to cover the child himself or herself. The image exploits anxieties about proving paternity that remain even in… Read more

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Foreword

Foreword Building on the foundations of scholarship within the disciplines of philology, philosophy, history, and archaeology, this series concerns not just the archaic and classical periods of Greek traditions but the whole continuum—along with all the discontinuities—from the second millennium B.C.E. to the present. The aim is to enhance perspectives by applying various disciplines to problems that have in the past been treated as the exclusive concern… Read more

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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments For my parents, for all they made possible, and for Mark, for living through it with me.   This book began as a doctoral dissertation for the Ph.D. in Classical Philology at Harvard University. I most gratefully acknowledge the help and encouragement of my readers for that dissertation: Gloria Ferrari Pinney, who gave me a new eye for metaphor and whose work continues to… Read more