By examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Classical Attic Greek. A representative range of registers, technical languages, sociolects, and (comic) idiolects is described and analyzed. Stylistic and statistical observations are combined and supplemented by typological comparisons with material drawn from sociolinguistic research on modern languages. The resulting portrayal of the Attic dialect deepens our understanding of various socio-cultural phenomena reflected in Aristophanes' work.
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Andreas Willi is Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford
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In his doctoral thesis, Willi examines a variety of topics from his given method--examining linguistic variations in given data sets of Attic Greek. These include comparisons both of Aristophanes and other extant Attic Greek authors, as well as within different plays of Aristophanes. The work, as you can imagine, makes use of many technical terms. Willi also has a habit of casual inserting German and French passages and leaving them untranslated. The thesis is therefore forbidding; however, I do commend Willi for a very illuminating study of Old Comedy. Most importantly, Willi rather casually attaches a simple grammar of Aristophanic Greek as an appendix to the thesis. This is an incredibly useful tool for me, as a student approaching Aristophanes for the first time. I dare admit that it meant more to mean than the thesis itself.
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IN THE ANCIENT Life of Aristophanes (Ar. test. I) we are told that the tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse once asked the philosopher Plato for information about the organization of public life in Athens. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secondary foreigner talk, active perfect forms, oblique optative, athematic verbs, religious register, scientific poetry, articular infinitive, nominal gender, register dimension, female speech, simplified registers, verbal adjectives, ethic dative, infinitival construction, register features, broken language, specialist discourse, aorist imperative, production circumstances, register studies, nominal sentences, register variation, written registers, legal vocabulary, verbal paradigm Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Religious Registers, Sophistic Innovations, Attic Greek, Old Comedy, Diogenes of Apollonia, Koine Greek, López Eire, Eduard Fraenkel, Black Sea, Lexeme Meaning Individual, Scythian's Greek, Theopompus Com, Vander Waerdt New!
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IN THE ANCIENT Life of Aristophanes (Ar. test. I) we are told that the tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse once asked the philosopher Plato for information about the organization of public life in Athens. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secondary foreigner talk, active perfect forms, oblique optative, athematic verbs, religious register, scientific poetry, articular infinitive, nominal gender, register dimension, female speech, simplified registers, verbal adjectives, ethic dative, infinitival construction, register features, broken language, specialist discourse, aorist imperative, production circumstances, register studies, nominal sentences, register variation, written registers, legal vocabulary, verbal paradigm Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Religious Registers, Sophistic Innovations, Attic Greek, Old Comedy, Diogenes of Apollonia, Koine Greek, López Eire, Eduard Fraenkel, Black Sea, Lexeme Meaning Individual, Scythian's Greek, Theopompus Com, Vander Waerdt New!
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