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Greek Forms of Address - From Herodotus to Lucian (Hardcover, New)
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Greek Forms of Address - From Herodotus to Lucian (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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How did an Athenian citizen address his wife? - his children, his
slaves, and his dog? How did they address him? This book is the
first major application of linguistic theories of address to an
ancient language. It is based on a corpus of 11,891 vocatives from
twenty-five prose authors from Herodotus to Lucian, and on
comparative data from Aristophanes, Menander, and other sources;
the data are analysed using techniques and evidence from the field
of sociolinguistics to shed light on some long-standing problems in
Greek. A separate section discusses the theoretical problems which
arise from the attempt to reconstruct conversational Greek on the
basis of written texts and concludes that this enterprise is indeed
possible, provided that the right sources are selected. Analysis of
the Greek address system leads to a reconsideration of the meanings
of individual addresses and thus of the interpretation of specific
passages; it also challenges the validity of some alleged
sociolinguistic 'universals'. In particular, Eleanor Dickey
examines some of the idiosyncratic aspects of Socrates' language,
offering an exceptionally interesting and novel contribution to the
problem of the 'historical Socrates'. Highly original, lucid, and
jargon-free, this book offers many significant insights on both the
literature and language of ancient Greece.
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