Enallage and Greek style
by Bers, Victor, Nimōṣiṇi
fromMnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava
First published in 1955, this is a concise yet comprehensive guide to the syntax of Attic Greek as written by Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato and Demosthenes.
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Tying together linguistics, philology and philosophy, this monograph explores the morphological and semantic development of the heavily marked reflexive system in Ancient Greek and argues that these changes are connected to a reconceptualisation of the human subject as character…