Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek

List of contents

1. Expressions of time: an introduction; 2. Expressions of time in Thucydides; 3. Expressions of time: style, genre, and diachrony; 4. Expressions of time in Biblical Greek; 5. A retrospective: going back in time; 6. Summary.

About the author

Coulter H. George is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. The author of Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek (Cambridge, 2005), he has also taught at Rice University, Houston and was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. His research interests include the syntax of the Greek verb, particles and prepositions, and contact phenomena between Greek and the other languages of the ancient Mediterranean.

Summary

English speakers find it hard to explain why they say something happens at a particular time, but on a certain day, and in a given year; however this book does just that for Ancient Greek, describing not only variation among Classical authors, but also diachronic change in the following centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Coulter H. George
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781108820257
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82025-7
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 216 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 400 g
• Illustrations: 22 tables, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss, Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Ancient Greece, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Language: history & general works, Classical history / classical civilisation, Historical & comparative linguistics, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Ancient (Classical) Greek, BCE to c 500 CE, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Ancient Languages