22 Citations
Naming the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides
- LinguisticsAmerican Journal of Philology
- 2019
Abstract:This article focuses on the language used to describe the plague, and more specifically on the oscillation of its vocabulary between literal and figurative meaning, in Homer's Iliad…
Poétique du temps dans les tragédies de Sophocle : la construction de l'effet tragique
- Art
- 2018
Par nature, le theâtre a partie liee avec le temps. Dans les sept pieces conservees de Sophocle, χρόνος est au cœur du discours des personnages, comme sujet de leur reflexion sur l’existence, mais…
Foreign Bodies: Sophocles Antigone 1080-1083
- Psychology
- 2016
The article seeks to place Wunder’s deletion of Antigone 1080-1083 beyond reasonable doubt. The standard interpretation of the lines makes them intrusive both in their immediate context and in the…
The Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank: Linguistic Annotation in a Teaching Environment
- Education
- 2016
This chapter argues that manual linguistic annotation of Ancient Greek texts can be effectively employed to teach of Greek literature and languages. Under the supervision of a teacher, students can…
Loxias and Phoebus in Tragedy: Convention and Violation
- Psychology
- 2014
In many discussions of tragedy, the names Loxias and Phoebus are generally ignored because it is assumed that metrical demands are influencing name choice. In this article, we begin by taking the…
Road to Nowhere: The Mobility of Oedipus and the Task of Interpretation
- Art, Psychology
- 2014
This article draws on a close reading of the language of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus to explore how the text problematizes concepts of place, space, and movement through the ambiguous figure of…
The bloody dust of the nether gods: Sophocles, "Antigone" 599-603
- Psychology, Art
- 2014
Though current editions of the plays of Sophocles (Dawe’s Teubner, LloydJones’s and Wilson’s OCT, and Lloyd-Jones’s Loeb) all print the emendation κοπίς for MSS’ κόνις in Antigone 602,3 there can be…
Adjectival periphrasis in Ancient Greek: A cognitive analysis
- Philosophy
- 2013
In this article, I discuss Ancient Greek constructions
consisting of a form of the verb eimi I
am and a present, perfect or aorist participle. In
particular, I focus on those uses where the…
Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece
- Biology
- 2013
The theology of progonikon hamartema and inherited guilt, and the earliest record: exoleia in Homer and Hesiod.