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Chronology, Dialect, and Style in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

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Chronology, Dialect, and Style in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry concerns the language of epic poetry of Ancient Greece. It focuses on various unique texts, whose authors and dates of composition we know next to nothing, and uses linguistic features to theorise the possibility of dating the poems.


List of contents










  • 1: Introduction

  • Part 1. Individual Linguistic Features

  • 2: Thematic Genitives in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

  • 3: The Digamma in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

  • 4: Thematic Dative Plurals in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

  • 5: Tmesis in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

  • Part 2. The Wider Picture

  • 6: Summary of the Key Findings of Part 1

  • 7: Homeric Speech, Narrative, and Style

  • 8: Register in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

  • 9: Conclusion



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Since completing his DPhil in 2019, Tom has been teaching and researching at Oxford University, at Oriel and Balliol colleges.


Summary

Chronology, Dialect, and Style in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry concerns the language of epic poetry of Ancient Greece. It focuses on various unique texts, whose authors and dates of composition we know next to nothing, and uses linguistic features to theorise the possibility of dating the poems.

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