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After Etudes sur l’aspect verbal chez Platon (Saint-Etienne, 2000), the international ‘Groupe de recherche sur l’aspect verbal en grec’ now presents a second volume on verbal aspect in (Ancient) Greek, which is devoted to the function(s) of the Historical Present in Thucydides. In nine chapters the authors approach this subject from a variety of angles, focusing inter alia on the HP of particular verbs and on its use in battle narratives, or investigate Thucydides’ use of the HP from a comparative perspective. They share one important assumption, viz. that the primary function of the HP is to mark events that were, according to Thucydides, of decisive importance for the development of the Peloponnesian War. By its rich and detailed analyses the book provides important new insights into Thucydides’ narrative technique.
Price: $187.00
Pages: 332
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology
Publication Date:
21 March 2011
ISBN: 9789004201187
Format: Hardcover
the present volume is an important contribution to Thucydidean scholarship. (...) Personally, I have been using it since its publication and I fearlessly recommend it to everyone. Vasileios Liotsakis, BMCR 2012.04.55.
Jean Lallot (agrégé de grammaire 1962, PhD 1990) est maître de conférences émérite (linguistique grecque) à l’École normale supérieure (Paris). Commentateur et traducteur d’Aristote (Poétique, 1980 [en collab.]; Catégories, 2002 [en collab.]) et des grammairiens grecs (Denys le Thrace, 1989; Apollonius Dyscole, Syntaxe, 1997).
Albert Rijksbaron (Ph.D. 1976) is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Greek Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. His publications include The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek (1984, 20023), Grammatical Observations on Euripides’ Bacchae (1991), and an edition with commentary of Plato’s Ion (2007).
Bernard Jacquinod (docteur d’état 1985) est professeur émérite de Linguistique du grec ancien à l’Université de Saint-Etienne (France), il a été le directeur de la faculté d'Arts, Lettres, Langues. Il a publié sa thèse sous le titre : Le double accusatif en grec d’Homère à la fin du Ve avant J.-C. (1989, Louvain).
Michel Buijs, Ph.D. (2003) in Ancient Greek, Leiden University, teaches Greek and Latin at Utrecht University and Leiden University. He is author of Clause Combining in Ancient Greek Narrative Discourse (2005) and co-editor of The Language of Literature. Linguistic Approaches to Classical Texts (2007).
Albert Rijksbaron (Ph.D. 1976) is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Greek Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. His publications include The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek (1984, 20023), Grammatical Observations on Euripides’ Bacchae (1991), and an edition with commentary of Plato’s Ion (2007).
Bernard Jacquinod (docteur d’état 1985) est professeur émérite de Linguistique du grec ancien à l’Université de Saint-Etienne (France), il a été le directeur de la faculté d'Arts, Lettres, Langues. Il a publié sa thèse sous le titre : Le double accusatif en grec d’Homère à la fin du Ve avant J.-C. (1989, Louvain).
Michel Buijs, Ph.D. (2003) in Ancient Greek, Leiden University, teaches Greek and Latin at Utrecht University and Leiden University. He is author of Clause Combining in Ancient Greek Narrative Discourse (2005) and co-editor of The Language of Literature. Linguistic Approaches to Classical Texts (2007).