Allan Rutger J., Buijs Michel (Editors). The Language of Literature: Linguistic Approaches to Classical Texts

Brill, 2007. — 251 pages. — (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology) — ISBN: 978-90-04-15654-8.This volume is a collection of papers revealing the largely unexplored boundary between linguistic and literary approaches to classical texts. Eleven contributions by various scholars discuss a wide range of linguistic and literary aspects of classical texts.General Introduction
Sophocles Trachiniae 1-48, Euripidean Prologues, and Their Audiences
Mythical Chronology in the Odes of Pindar. The Cases of Pythian 10 and Olympian 3 Chapter Four Discourse Modes and Bases in Vergil’s Aeneid
Discourse Modes and the Use of Tenses in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Sense and Sentence Complexity. Sentence Structure, Sentence Connection, and Tense-aspect as Indicators of Narrative Mode in Thucydides’ Histories
Aspectual Differences and Narrative Technique: Xenophon’s Hellenica & Agesilaus
L’opposition aspectuelle ‘Présent’ — Aoriste dans la Grande Loi de Gortyne
Intentions and Future Realisations in Herodotus
Adjective Ordering in Herodotus: a Pragmatic Explanation
From Demetrius to Dik. Ancient and Modern Views on Greek and Latin Word Order