Archive

Book Chapter

IV.5 Analysis of four excerpts

II.5 Particles and Anaphoric Reference: A discourse perspective on particles with third-person pronouns §1. In ancient Greek, pronouns and particles have a special relationship: the two are often found together and intrinsically connected. They are not only frequently adjacent, but they work together to guide the discourse, and may even form a single unit. II.2 demonstrates how the Homeric and Pindaric performers produce their discourse piecemeal, each piece adding a… Read more

Book Chapter

I.8 Index locorum

I.3 Approaches to particles and discourse markers Annemieke Drummen 3.1 Introduction §1. I.2 offers an overview of the scholarship on Greek particles up to the beginning of the Renaissance. The first authors in this period who paid considerable attention to the description of Greek words were Budaeus (Budé) in his Commentarii Linguae Graecae from 1529, and Stephanus (Estienne) in his 1572 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. Devarius, a Greek scholar working in… Read more

Book Chapter

III.1 Introduction

I.4 General conclusions §1. Ιn this chapter we outline the value of our work for the study of Greek particles on the one hand, and archaic and classical Greek literature on the other. By “conclusions” we do not mean that we will be summarizing the outcomes of our various analyses on particles, particle combinations, and discourse phenomena. For these discussions we direct your attention to the ad hoc conclusions found… Read more

Book Chapter

III.2 Varying one’s speech: Discourse patterns

I.5 Particle frequencies in Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, and Thucydides We started our investigation by looking at the following frequencies. They concern the “core” items of a list inherited by previous scholarship, and the frequencies relate to the authors of our corpus. All numbers are as given by the TLG. All frequencies are in percentages of all words. All texts include fragments, if these are available in… Read more

Book Chapter

III.3 Reusing others’ words: Resonance

Bibliography [Jump to letter: A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z] (Anonymous). 1824. Lexicon Thucydidaeum: A Dictionary in Greek and English, of the Words, Phrases, and Principal Idioms, Contained in the History of the Peloponnesian War of Thucydides. London. https://archive.org/stream/lexiconthucydida00lond#page/174/mode/2up. Abbott, T. K. 1890. “On δή after Relatives in… Read more

Book Chapter

2. Text and Translation

Chapter 2. Text and Translation 1. Introduction For more than a century, Jacoby’s has been the authoritative text of the Parian Marble, first through his 1904 Habilitation thesis, later through the collection of historical fragments (FGrH 239), hereafter referred to as Jacoby’s edition. His work was timely, indeed. By 1904, section B of the inscription, just discovered (1897), had already been edited by Krispi and commented… Read more

Book Chapter

3. The Genre of the Parian Marble

Chapter 3. The Genre of the Parian Marble 1. The Chronicle as a Literary Genre Features such as the catalogue–like format, the absence of authorial voice, the omission of controversies about facts or sources, are not exclusive to the Parian Marble. They characterize many other texts from ancient Greece and beyond. Most particularly, content and structure link the Parian Marble to the family of “chronography,” one… Read more

Book Chapter

4. The Parian Marble as a Literary Text

Chapter 4. The Parian Marble as a Literary Text The Parian Marble offers the rare opportunity to explore the textual qualities of an ancient piece of Greek chronography. However, literary scholars seem to have so far been reluctant to study it as a verbal artifact, probably due to its catalogue style, simple syntax, and limited vocabulary. It is certainly possible to analyze the chronicle’s style, themes, characters,… Read more

Book Chapter

5. Time in the Parian Marble

Chapter 5. Time in the Parian Marble Time is ubiquitous in the Parian Marble, as suits its genre and purpose; it structures the inscription at all levels. While individual entries open with “from when” and conclude with dating formulae (by Athenian kings or archons), the text as a whole is built upon the backward counting of years (see chap. 1, sect. 4 above). Scholarship has thus far… Read more

Book Chapter

6. Literary History in the Parian Marble

Chapter 6. Literary History in the Parian Marble Biographies of ancient Greek poets and musicians frequently rely on information found in the Parian Marble. [1] The inscription is held as a reference point, even when the validity of dates is called into question. [2] Yet inquiry into how biographical details were attained rarely goes beyond matters of… Read more