Издательство: University of Oklahoma Press
Год издания: 2000
Страниц: 372
ISBN 0-8061-2844-5
Формат: PDF
In this companion volume to his earlier work, The Latin Language,
Leonard R. Palmer now provides a history of The Greek Language,
including an overview of the coming of the Greeks, the Linear B.
Tablets, the Greek dialects, genres (in poetry and prose), and a
comparative-historical grammar. Palmer discusses the transformation
of the Greek language from its Indo-European roots, through the
Bronze and Dark Ages, to the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman
periods and beyond. Major authors and genres are discussed
throughout the history, including essays on Homer, Melic poetry,
tragedy, Herodotus and Thucydides.