The language of literature
Subtitle: linguistic approaches to classical texts
By: edited by Rutger J. Allan, Michel Buijs.
Contributors: Allan, Rutger J.; Buijs, Michel.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9789004156548
Subjects: Greek literature -- Criticism, Textual; Latin literature -- Criticism, Textual; Greek literature -- History and criticism; Latin literature -- History and criticism; Greek language -- Word order; Latin language -- Word order; Greek language -- Style; Latin language -- Style
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-241) and index.

English and French.
Table of contents: title: General introduction / Rutger J. Allan and Michel Buijs; title: Sophocles Trachiniae 1-48, Euripidean prologues, and their audiences / Irene J.F. de Jong; title: Mythical chronology in the Odes of Pindar : the cases of Pythian 10 and Olympian 3 / Lukas van den Berge; title: Discourse modes and bases in Vergil's Aeneid / Suzanne M. Adema; title: Discourse modes and the use of tenses in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Caroline H.M. Kroon; title: Sense and sentence complexity : sentence structure, sentence connection, and tense-aspect as indicators of narrative mode in Thucydides' Histories / Rutger J. Allan; title: Aspectual differences and narrative technique : Xenophon's Hellenica & Agesilaus / Michel Buijs; title: L'opposition aspectuelle 'present' : aoriste dans la Grande loi de Gortyne / Jean Lallot; title: Intentions and future realisations in Herodotus / Gerry C. Wakker; title: Adjective ordering in Herodotus : a pragmatic explanation / Stephanie J. Bakker; title: From Demetrius to Dik : ancient and modern views on Greek and Latin word order / Casper C. de Jonge.