A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118782917 ISBN 13: 9781118782910

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Synopsis

A comprehensive account of the language of Ancient Greek civilization in a single volume, with contributions from leading international scholars covering the historical, geographical, sociolinguistic, and literary perspectives of the language. * A collection of 36 original essays by a team of international scholars * Treats the survival and transmission of Ancient Greek * Includes discussions on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics

About this title

Review:

"The work is wonderfully clear, informative, and engaging. Students and scholars will enjoy consulting it. Highly recommended. Upper–division undergraduates through faculty." ( Choice, 1 May 2011)

"It has become customary for reviews of handbooks to express misgivings toward the genre and its ever–increasing presence. But whatever one might think of companion volumes, this is a useful book. It boasts a wide range of generally high–quality essays by a parade of eminent scholars. Perhaps its most praiseworthy feature is the clarity and accessibility of many of its contributions, which makes them ideal starting points for the non–specialist." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 7 May 2011)

"One doesn′t have to be a student of Greek to enjoy this informative compendium." (Book News Inc, November 2010)

About the Author:

Egbert J. Bakker is Professor of Classics at Yale University. He is the author of Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (1997) and Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics (2005) and the co-editor with A. Kahane of Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance, and Epic Text (1997). He has published widely on various aspects of the Greek language, in particular, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and speaking versus writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1118782917
• ISBN 13: 9781118782910
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 704
• Editor: Bakker Egbert J.