Author: John Dewar Denniston
Publisher: Praeger Pub Text
ISBN: 9780313209604
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
This history of the development of Greek prose, based on the author's Oxford lectures, was designed for use by university students and professors.
Greek Prose Style
Author: John Dewar Denniston
Publisher: Praeger Pub Text
ISBN: 9780313209604
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
This history of the development of Greek prose, based on the author's Oxford lectures, was designed for use by university students and professors.
Publisher: Praeger Pub Text
ISBN: 9780313209604
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
This history of the development of Greek prose, based on the author's Oxford lectures, was designed for use by university students and professors.
An Introduction to the Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose
Author: Eleanor Dickey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761425
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book offers a lively, intelligent, accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date introduction to translating into ancient Greek.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761425
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book offers a lively, intelligent, accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date introduction to translating into ancient Greek.
The Evolution of Greek Prose Style
Author: Kenneth James Dover
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The transmission of literature in writing began in the Greek world with poetry; the publication of laws and regulations came later, and prose literature last, about 500 BC. This book examines the stages by which prose was turned into the sophisticated art-form practised in the fourth century BC, in particular by Plato and Demosthenes. An attempt is made to determine the linguistic conventions which can reasonably be attributed, on the analogy of other cultures, to unwritten narrative and oratory. The extent to which `content' and `form' can be separated is considered, and the stylistic choices which constitute form are treated as determining the relationship (e.g. of authority or familiarity) between creator and receiver and the balance sought by the creator between innovation and deference to the receiver's expectations.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The transmission of literature in writing began in the Greek world with poetry; the publication of laws and regulations came later, and prose literature last, about 500 BC. This book examines the stages by which prose was turned into the sophisticated art-form practised in the fourth century BC, in particular by Plato and Demosthenes. An attempt is made to determine the linguistic conventions which can reasonably be attributed, on the analogy of other cultures, to unwritten narrative and oratory. The extent to which `content' and `form' can be separated is considered, and the stylistic choices which constitute form are treated as determining the relationship (e.g. of authority or familiarity) between creator and receiver and the balance sought by the creator between innovation and deference to the receiver's expectations.
Greek Prose Style
Author: John Dewar Denniston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Hippocratic Oratory
Author: James R. Cross
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317048784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
On Ancient Medicine, On the Art, On Breaths, On the Nature of Human Beings and On the Sacred Disease are among the most well-known and sophisticated works of the Hippocratic Collection. The authors of these treatises were seeking to find means to express their arguments that built on authoritative models of their predecessors. By examining the range of expressive resources used in their expository prose, James Cross demonstrates how oral tradition and written techniques, such as sound patterning, sign-posting and antithetical formulae, were deployed to help the writers develop a case. The book demonstrates that there were various layers of meaning and manners of communicating ideas which can be found in Hippocratic expository prose, and offers fresh insights into the oral debating culture and experiments in persuasion which characterise the ancient Greek world of the late fifth-century BCE.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317048784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
On Ancient Medicine, On the Art, On Breaths, On the Nature of Human Beings and On the Sacred Disease are among the most well-known and sophisticated works of the Hippocratic Collection. The authors of these treatises were seeking to find means to express their arguments that built on authoritative models of their predecessors. By examining the range of expressive resources used in their expository prose, James Cross demonstrates how oral tradition and written techniques, such as sound patterning, sign-posting and antithetical formulae, were deployed to help the writers develop a case. The book demonstrates that there were various layers of meaning and manners of communicating ideas which can be found in Hippocratic expository prose, and offers fresh insights into the oral debating culture and experiments in persuasion which characterise the ancient Greek world of the late fifth-century BCE.
Plutarch's Rhythmic Prose
Author: G. O. Hutchinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192554794
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Greek literature is divided, like many literatures, into poetry and prose, but in Greek the difference between them is not that all prose is devoid of firm rhythmic patterning. In the earlier Roman Empire, from 31 BC to about AD 300, much Greek (and Latin) prose was actually written to follow one organized rhythmic system. How much Greek prose adopted this patterning has hitherto been quite unclear; the present volume for the first time establishes an answer on an adequate basis: substantial data drawn from numerous authors. It constitutes the first extensive study of prose-rhythm in later Greek literature. The book focuses particularly on one of the greatest Imperial works: Plutarch's Lives. It rests on a scansion of the whole work, almost 100,000 phrases. Rhythm is seen to make a vital contribution to the literary analysis of Plutarch's writing, and prose-rhythm is revealed as a means of expression, which draws attention to words and word-groups. Some passages in the Lives pack rhythms together more closely than others; much of the discussion concentrates on such rhythmically dense passages, examining them in detail in commentary form. These passages do not occur randomly, but attract attention to themselves. They are marked out as climactic in the narrative, or as in other ways of highlighted significance: joyful summations, responses to catastrophe, husbands and wives, fathers and sons compared. These remarkable passages make apparent the greatness of Plutarch as a prose-writer - a side of him fairly little considered amid the huge resurgence of work on Plutarch as an author and as a major historical source. Some passages from three Greek novelists, both rhythmic and unrhythmic, are closely analysed too. The book demonstrates how rhythm can be integrated with other aspects of criticism, and how it has the ability to open up new vistas on three prolific centuries of literary history.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192554794
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Greek literature is divided, like many literatures, into poetry and prose, but in Greek the difference between them is not that all prose is devoid of firm rhythmic patterning. In the earlier Roman Empire, from 31 BC to about AD 300, much Greek (and Latin) prose was actually written to follow one organized rhythmic system. How much Greek prose adopted this patterning has hitherto been quite unclear; the present volume for the first time establishes an answer on an adequate basis: substantial data drawn from numerous authors. It constitutes the first extensive study of prose-rhythm in later Greek literature. The book focuses particularly on one of the greatest Imperial works: Plutarch's Lives. It rests on a scansion of the whole work, almost 100,000 phrases. Rhythm is seen to make a vital contribution to the literary analysis of Plutarch's writing, and prose-rhythm is revealed as a means of expression, which draws attention to words and word-groups. Some passages in the Lives pack rhythms together more closely than others; much of the discussion concentrates on such rhythmically dense passages, examining them in detail in commentary form. These passages do not occur randomly, but attract attention to themselves. They are marked out as climactic in the narrative, or as in other ways of highlighted significance: joyful summations, responses to catastrophe, husbands and wives, fathers and sons compared. These remarkable passages make apparent the greatness of Plutarch as a prose-writer - a side of him fairly little considered amid the huge resurgence of work on Plutarch as an author and as a major historical source. Some passages from three Greek novelists, both rhythmic and unrhythmic, are closely analysed too. The book demonstrates how rhythm can be integrated with other aspects of criticism, and how it has the ability to open up new vistas on three prolific centuries of literary history.
Writing Greek
Author: Stephen Anderson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147250285X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Planned as a companion volume to Writing Latin by Richard Ashdowne and James Morwood, this accessible guide to writing Greek is useful for anyone starting Greek prose composition. Part 1 deals with the constituent elements of the simple sentence, and in Part 2 all major constructions are covered, each with thorough explanations and clear examples. Each chapter has either two or three exercises of practice sentences, further supplemented throughout Part 2 by passages for continuous composition. 100 important irregular verbs with their principal parts are listed at the back of the book, and there is a complete vocabulary for all the exercises, a useful learning and revision resource in itself.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147250285X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Planned as a companion volume to Writing Latin by Richard Ashdowne and James Morwood, this accessible guide to writing Greek is useful for anyone starting Greek prose composition. Part 1 deals with the constituent elements of the simple sentence, and in Part 2 all major constructions are covered, each with thorough explanations and clear examples. Each chapter has either two or three exercises of practice sentences, further supplemented throughout Part 2 by passages for continuous composition. 100 important irregular verbs with their principal parts are listed at the back of the book, and there is a complete vocabulary for all the exercises, a useful learning and revision resource in itself.
Greek Prose Style
Author: J.D. Denniston
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
First published in 1952, this study discusses the development of Greek prose during the fifth century and analyzes its use of abstract forms of expression, word-order, sentence structure, use of repetition, asyndeton and assonance.
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
First published in 1952, this study discusses the development of Greek prose during the fifth century and analyzes its use of abstract forms of expression, word-order, sentence structure, use of repetition, asyndeton and assonance.
Greek Tragic Style
Author: R. B. Rutherford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521848903
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
An exploration of the poetic qualities of the Greek tragic dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides highlighting their similarities and differences.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521848903
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
An exploration of the poetic qualities of the Greek tragic dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides highlighting their similarities and differences.
Greek Prose Composition
Author: A.E. Hillard
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN: 9780715612842
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This classic Greek composition book has been in use thoroughout the world for over 100 years. It remains the standard middle school Grek manual. It features brief lesson overviews followed by English to Greek composition exercises. In the Appendix the student will find useful tables of verb stems, prepositions and particles. The book is suitable for both beginners and intermediate learners.
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN: 9780715612842
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This classic Greek composition book has been in use thoroughout the world for over 100 years. It remains the standard middle school Grek manual. It features brief lesson overviews followed by English to Greek composition exercises. In the Appendix the student will find useful tables of verb stems, prepositions and particles. The book is suitable for both beginners and intermediate learners.