The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek

Abstract

This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advances in linguistics made in recent decades, it provides students, teachers and academics with a comprehensive yet user-friendly treatment. The chapters on phonology and morphology make full use of insights from comparative and historical linguistics to elucidate complex systems of roots, stems and endings. The syntax offers linguistically up-to-date descriptions of such topics as case usage, tense and aspect, voice, subordinate clauses, infinitives and participles. An innovative section on textual coherence treats particles and word order and discusses several sample passages in detail, demonstrating new ways of approaching Greek texts. Throughout the book numerous original examples are provided, all with translations and often with clarifying notes. Clearly laid-out tables, helpful cross-references and full indexes make this essential resource accessible to users of all levels.

AUTOPSY AND DIDACTIC AUTHORITY: RETHINKING THE PROLOGUE OF THE PERIODOS TO NICOMEDES

“…31 Korenjak (n. 1), 18. However, this reading may underestimate the presence of autopsy in earlier historians, especially Herodotus and Thucydides: G. adjective, emphasizing the understood subject; 36 in this sense, it strengthens ἰδίᾳ, to convey the independence of the investigation ('personally, by oneself'). 37 It is thus highly unlikely that αὐτός refocalizes an earlier first-person referent; indeed, αὐτός performs an anaphoric function in this period only in oblique cases, or after the article.…”

“…37 It is thus highly unlikely that αὐτός refocalizes an earlier first-person referent; indeed, αὐτός performs an anaphoric function in this period only in oblique cases, or after the article. 38 These observations suggest that the text itself does not provide sufficient justification for readings identifying a first-person subject in line 128. Τhe resumption of first-person speech at line 137-τὰ δὲ πολλὰ συνελὼν ἄρξομαι τῶν πραγμάτων-better demarcates a transition to the author's self-descriptive mode.…”

Substantive changes in the Latin anatomical nomenclature: Sometimes less is more

“…Ancient Greek and classical Latin grammarians grouped what we now consider nouns and adjectives into a single part of speech ( ὄνομα in Greek and nomen in Latin) (Sihler, 1995). In Greek and Latin, nouns and other nominals (i.e., adjectives, articles, participles, and pronouns) are declined to express grammatical properties in three categories: case, number and gender (Allen & Greenough, 1903; van Emde Boas et al, 2019). All non‐noun nominals in a noun phrase are declined to agree with the noun they modify in all three categories.…”

“…The gender of these substantives is usually determined by the referent. The masculine may denote a man, men or people in general; the feminine, a woman or women; and the neuter, a thing, objects, or an abstract quality or idea (Allen & Greenough, 1903; van Emde Boas et al, 2019).…”

Phrasing Homer: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Homeric Versification

“…On the reality of such "Kurzkola" as IUs seeFraenkel (1965, 41-9, especially p. 46 on combinations of prepositive negatives with postpositives) andScheppers (2011, 12-3).29 The current state of Greek word order studies is conveniently summarized in van Emde Boas[et al] (2019, 701- 21).30 For terminology and more extensive definitions seeMatić (2003, 578-9),Dik (2007, 26-40),Allan (2014), van Emde Boas [et al] (2019.…”