Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse Exploring Particle Use Across Genres Anna Bonifazi, Annemieke Drummen, Mark de Kreij* Part I: Foundations In this introductory part, all three authors are represented. The prologue and epilogue, here gathered in one volume, are co-authored. Chapter I.2, on the study of particles in ancient Greek and Roman scholarship, was written by Mark de Kreij. Chapter I.3, on modern approaches to particles… Read more
Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse: Exploring Particle Use Across Genres Table of Contents Part I. Foundations Acknowledgments I.1 General introduction (AB, AD, MdK) 1.1 The extent of the project §§2-31.2 Goals §§4-71.3 The term “particle” §§8-111.4 The discourse approach: Key concepts §§12-171.5 A discourse approach to ancient Greek particles §§18-211.6 Guiding questions §221.7 Outline of the work §§23-33 1.7.1 Part I… Read more
Acknowledgments This work originated in a team project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through an Emmy-Noether program. The idea of a five-year collaboration—modeled after normal practice in academic fields other than the Humanities—and the generosity of the grant enabled us to become an internationally active group. The biggest thanks is therefore for the Humanities section of the DFG board committee, for selecting the proposal, funding it, and granting us… Read more
I.1 General introduction §1. The study of ancient Greek particles has been an integral part of the study of the Greek language from its earliest beginnings. Among the first parts of speech to be distinguished in Greek scholarship were the σύνδεσμοι (“combiners”), which include the later category of particles. [1] In the Renaissance, Matthaeus Devarius – a Greek scholar working in Rome – published a… Read more
I.2 From σύνδεσμοι to particulae Mark de Kreij 2.1 Introduction §1. The group of lexical items generally called particles has never been clearly defined. Despite many attempts, no one has yet succeeded in isolating them based either on their form or their function. [1] The ancient grammarians had the same problem, barring the fact that they did not have to wrestle with the term particles,… Read more
24. Grasping Hermeneutics* Peter Szondi was a very important influence, in my personal and intellectual life first of all, but equally in the history of my work, thanks to the discussions we carried on for more than twelve years about literatures—of which he was a marvelous connoisseur and judge—and about the theory of interpretation. His dense and demonstrative essays have surely transformed literary… Read more
25. A Future in the Past: Peter Szondi’s Material Hermeneutics* Peter Szondi’s redefinition of the science of literature challenged the influence that the analysis of Heidegger’s structure of Dasein had exerted in Germany, in university circles, both during and after World War II. [1] Szondi takes aim at the model constituted by Heidegger’s commentaries on the poems of… Read more
26. Reading the Signifier* My essay on the freedom of signifiers in Plato’s Cratylus [1] was written as an extension of work on that dialogue that I had pursued with a group of researchers from the University of Tübingen who were defenders of Plato’s unwritten doctrine. At a colloquium focused on the theory of language, I had… Read more
27. The Mountain of Death: The Meaning of Celan’s Meeting with Heidegger* Todtnauberg Arnica, Augentrost, derTrunk aus dem Brunnen mit demSternwürfel drauf, in derHütte die in das Buch—wessen Namen nahms aufvor dem meinen?—,die in dies Buchgeschriebene Zeile voneiner Hoffnung, heute,auf eines DenkendenkommendesWortim Herzen, Waldwasen, uneingeebnet,Orchis und Orchis, einzeln,… Read more
Preface For Martin West In memoriam Herewith the next installment of my series of commentaries on early epic fragments (for details see the preface to the first volume, The Theban Epics, which appeared in 2014). The following volume, dealing with the Cypria, will be the longest so far, and the present volume easily the shortest, and it will be worth the while briefly to… Read more
