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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Helma Dik (Associate Professor of Classics, University of Chicago)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.495kg ISBN: 9780199279296ISBN 10: 0199279292 Pages: 298 Publication Date: 26 July 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Accounting for word order variation in Greek 3: Tragic ways of dying: word order in the clause 4: Word order in the noun phrase 5: Enter dialogue: questions in Sophocles and Euripides 6: Back to the trimeter 7: Back to the text: four readings in Sophocles' Electra 8: Conclusion: reading word order, slowlyReviewsa valuable book D. M. Goldstein, Brwn Mawr Classical Review D. deserves mush credit for giving a new focus to study of world order, and for the tenacity she shows in attempting a rigorous discussion of what are, in fact, difficult problems in the close reading of tragic dialogue. Nicholas Baechle, JHS With this book, D. convincingly demonstrates that word order in tragic dialogue can be explained insightfully by means of pragmatic notions, thereby showing that it is more like prose...It will be of great interest not only to Greek linguists, but to anyone who wishes to attain a better understanding of the language of Greek drama. Rutger Allan, The Classical Review a valuable book D. M. Goldstein, Brwn Mawr Classical Review D. deserves mush credit for giving a new focus to study of world order, and for the tenacity she shows in attempting a rigorous discussion of what are, in fact, difficult problems in the close reading of tragic dialogue. Nicholas Baechle, JHS With this book, D. convincingly demonstrates that word order in tragic dialogue can be explained insightfully by means of pragmatic notions, thereby showing that it is more like prose...It will be of great interest not only to Greek linguists, but to anyone who wishes to attain a better understanding of the language of Greek drama. Rutger Allan, The Classical Review a valuable book D. M. Goldstein, Brwn Mawr Classical Review Author InformationHelma Dik is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |