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Sophocles and the Greek Language: Aspects of Diction, Syntax and Pragmatics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Sophocles and the Greek language; aspects of diction, syntax and pragmatics.

Ed. by I.J.F. de Jong and A. Rijksbaron.

Brill Academic Publishers

2006

267 pages

$146.00

Hardcover

Mnemosyne; 269

PA4414

Recent scholarship on how the ancient playwright used the Greek language is presented in 15 essays, some selected from presentations at a September 2003 conference in Amsterdam, and some solicited later for the volume. Taking the three linguistic features in turn, they discuss such topics as some issues of vocabulary in ...

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