DOMESTIC COMEDY AND THE CLASSICAL GREEK HOUSE

Plato Comicus and the Evolution of Greek Comedy

Typesetting classical Greek philology

The teubner package provides support for typesetting classical Greek philological texts with LATEX, including textual and rhythmic verse. The special signs and glyphs made available by this package may also be useful for typesetting philological texts with other alphabets.

Classical Greek Attitudes to Illness

The history of Greek attitudes to illness is characterised throughout by two oppositions. One concerns aetiology (divine intervention or the operation of fully explicable natural forces) and treatment (by science or by magic). The other opposition concerns the role of the sick or disabled individual in the community : a liability, to be rejected as such, or a fellow-human deserving compassion. ...

The phonology of Classical Greek meter*

We propose an analysis of Greek meter based purely on phonology and the idea that well-formedness in meter is largely gradient, rather than absolute. Our analysis is surface-true, constraint-based and nonderivational, in line with proposals like optimality theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). The discussion centers on two properties of meter, rhythm (dactylic, anapestic, iambic ...) and line len...

Conceptions of the Poetic in Classical Greek Prose

CONCEPTIONS OF THE POETIC IN CLASSICAL GREEK PROSE Alison C. Traweek Dr. Sheila Murnaghan This dissertation explores how prose authors of the Classical period envisioned literary distinctions, particularly how and when they labeled a particular utterance ‘poetic’. The first chapter addresses fifth-century prose authors whose work survives in significant degree (Herodotus, Thucydides), or whose ...