A fairly frequent syntactic phenomenon both of Greek and of Latin is, in the words of Calvert Wat... more A fairly frequent syntactic phenomenon both of Greek and of Latin is, in the words of Calvert Watkins, ‘the iteration of a compound verb in a succeeding clause or sentence by the simple verb alone, but with the semantic force of the compound’.
Rezension zu: Sabine Föllinger, Aischylos. Meister der griechischen Tragödie. München: C.H. Beck ... more Rezension zu: Sabine Föllinger, Aischylos. Meister der griechischen Tragödie. München: C.H. Beck 2009, 224 S., 5 Stammtafeln und 5 Abb. im Text
Starting from a reference to Sicilian Himera in one of Aeschylus' Glaucus plays (fr. 25a), th... more Starting from a reference to Sicilian Himera in one of Aeschylus' Glaucus plays (fr. 25a), this paper argues that the tragedies produced together with Persians in 472 BC both contained prophetic references to the Persian and Punic wars of 480/79 – Phineus to the wrecking of much of the Persian fleet at Cape Sepias by a north-easterly gale (answering the Athenians' prayers to Boreas and Oreithyia, whose sons had saved Phineus from the Harpies) and Glaucus of Potniae to Himera and possibly also to Plataea or its aftermath (when the Greek army had marched on Thebes via Potniae). The three together can thus be seen as constituting a Persian War trilogy, and some other previously unnoticed thematic links between them are pointed out. The satyr-drama, Prometheus Pyrphoros (as it should be called), could without difficulty have been linked to the same theme via the burning of Athens (home of the only major cult of Prometheus). It is considered what light this view of Aeschylus'...
Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great... more Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon. He won the tragic prize at the City Dionysia thirteen times between ca. 499 and 458, and in his later years was probably victorious almost every time he put on a production, though Sophocles beat him at least once.Of his total of about eighty plays, seven survive complete. The first volume of this new "Loeb Classical Library" edition offers fresh texts and translations by Alan H. Sommerstein of Persians, the only surviving Greek historical drama; "Seven against Thebes", from a trilogy on the conflict between Oedipus' sons; Suppliants, on the successful appeal by the daughters of Danaus to the king and people of Argos for protection against a forced marriage; and Prometheus Bound (of disputed authenticity), on the terrible punishment of Prometheus for giving ...
Page 1. 184 SQUIBS AND DISCUSSION Bach, E. and G. Horn (1976) "Remarks on 'Conditions o... more Page 1. 184 SQUIBS AND DISCUSSION Bach, E. and G. Horn (1976) "Remarks on 'Conditions on Transformations'," Linguistic Inquiry 7, 265-299. Chomsky, N. (1970) "Remarks on Nominalization," in R. Jacobs and PS Rosenbaum, eds. (1970). ...
The main thesis of this paper is that the grammars of natural languages contain an exhaustive set... more The main thesis of this paper is that the grammars of natural languages contain an exhaustive set of conditions on the output of the phonological rules – in fact, a surface phonotactics. I shall show that, contrary to what is usually assumed in generative phonology, a surface phonotactics is not redundant in a generative grammar if the grammar is indeed intended as ‘a theory of linguistic competence’ (Chomsky, 1965: 3), and that if any set of rules in the phonological section of the grammar is redundant it is the morphophonotactic rules, better known as morpheme structure conditions. I shall propose a format for the statement of rules (including so-called ‘conspiracies’) which are ‘motivated’ by the phonotactics in the sense of Matthews (1972: 219–220). Finally, I shall present a set of phonotactic rules for consonant clusters in Latin, and show how the statement of certain rules of Latin phonology can be simplified by taking their phonotactic motivation into account.
these passages, on the ground that, with its Herodotean connotations, it 'legt einen Abbruch ... more these passages, on the ground that, with its Herodotean connotations, it 'legt einen Abbruch des (dedanklichen) Fortschritts, eine Richtungsanderung des Gedankengangs nahe ... Eine solche Annahme soil aus der vorliegenden Untersuchung fernbleiben; es wird vielmehr von dem Postulat ausgegangen, dass die Berichte iiber die Vergangenheit einen unentbehrlichen Bestandteil des thukydideischen Gedankengangs bilden und zur Interpretation ihres Kontextes wesentlich beitragen' (3). For T., this postulate proves well founded: he concludes that, properly understood, these sections of Thucydides' History emerge 'als der wichtigste Ort (nach Thukydides' expliziten Kommentaren), an dem Thukydides' personliche Meinung iiber die von ihm in der Haupterzahlung dargestellten Vorgange zu suchen ist' (234). T. goes further: 'Die Berichte liber die Vergangenheit Musterbeispeile dafiir sind, wie Thukydides historische Erfahrung praktisch verwertet; an ihnen soil auch gezeigt werden, wie er die Niitzlichkeit seines eigenen Werkes verstand' (235).
As for the text itself, there are few differences from TrGF, to which the editors had access in a... more As for the text itself, there are few differences from TrGF, to which the editors had access in advance of publication. In a review of this length it is impossible to go into much detail, but a comparison of Gibert's Andromeda in this edition with Kannicht's text serves by way of illustration. Aside from minor matters of punctuation (use of commas here is kept to a minimum), there is little of significance to note. Fr. 120a [P.Oxy. 2628] is omitted. Fr. 122: lines 1034-5 appear as a single sentence; a greater proportion of the Aristophanic text is attributed to Euripides, and the division of lines is slightly different; on 1039 Scaliger's akk' is preferred to Aristophanes' dM.av. Fr. 130: ov Jiumoxe is printed (otrno) Kannicht). Fr. 137 is printed after fr. 143, among 'unplaced fragments'. Frr. 145-6 are transposed to follow fr. 137. Fr. 145: xr\c, (Tiberius) is retained in preference to xa (Kannicht, Nauck et al). Fr. 152: line 2 is obelized, but the apparatus does not record emendations (e.g. Grotius' uoipot(<;), accepted by Kannicht). Fr. 154: on line 2, Musgrave's (surely correct) ewojcEiv is adopted in preference to Stobaeus' eufoxei (printed, but obelized, by Kannicht).
A fairly frequent syntactic phenomenon both of Greek and of Latin is, in the words of Calvert Wat... more A fairly frequent syntactic phenomenon both of Greek and of Latin is, in the words of Calvert Watkins, ‘the iteration of a compound verb in a succeeding clause or sentence by the simple verb alone, but with the semantic force of the compound’.
Rezension zu: Sabine Föllinger, Aischylos. Meister der griechischen Tragödie. München: C.H. Beck ... more Rezension zu: Sabine Föllinger, Aischylos. Meister der griechischen Tragödie. München: C.H. Beck 2009, 224 S., 5 Stammtafeln und 5 Abb. im Text
Starting from a reference to Sicilian Himera in one of Aeschylus' Glaucus plays (fr. 25a), th... more Starting from a reference to Sicilian Himera in one of Aeschylus' Glaucus plays (fr. 25a), this paper argues that the tragedies produced together with Persians in 472 BC both contained prophetic references to the Persian and Punic wars of 480/79 – Phineus to the wrecking of much of the Persian fleet at Cape Sepias by a north-easterly gale (answering the Athenians' prayers to Boreas and Oreithyia, whose sons had saved Phineus from the Harpies) and Glaucus of Potniae to Himera and possibly also to Plataea or its aftermath (when the Greek army had marched on Thebes via Potniae). The three together can thus be seen as constituting a Persian War trilogy, and some other previously unnoticed thematic links between them are pointed out. The satyr-drama, Prometheus Pyrphoros (as it should be called), could without difficulty have been linked to the same theme via the burning of Athens (home of the only major cult of Prometheus). It is considered what light this view of Aeschylus'...
Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great... more Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon. He won the tragic prize at the City Dionysia thirteen times between ca. 499 and 458, and in his later years was probably victorious almost every time he put on a production, though Sophocles beat him at least once.Of his total of about eighty plays, seven survive complete. The first volume of this new "Loeb Classical Library" edition offers fresh texts and translations by Alan H. Sommerstein of Persians, the only surviving Greek historical drama; "Seven against Thebes", from a trilogy on the conflict between Oedipus' sons; Suppliants, on the successful appeal by the daughters of Danaus to the king and people of Argos for protection against a forced marriage; and Prometheus Bound (of disputed authenticity), on the terrible punishment of Prometheus for giving ...
Page 1. 184 SQUIBS AND DISCUSSION Bach, E. and G. Horn (1976) "Remarks on 'Conditions o... more Page 1. 184 SQUIBS AND DISCUSSION Bach, E. and G. Horn (1976) "Remarks on 'Conditions on Transformations'," Linguistic Inquiry 7, 265-299. Chomsky, N. (1970) "Remarks on Nominalization," in R. Jacobs and PS Rosenbaum, eds. (1970). ...
The main thesis of this paper is that the grammars of natural languages contain an exhaustive set... more The main thesis of this paper is that the grammars of natural languages contain an exhaustive set of conditions on the output of the phonological rules – in fact, a surface phonotactics. I shall show that, contrary to what is usually assumed in generative phonology, a surface phonotactics is not redundant in a generative grammar if the grammar is indeed intended as ‘a theory of linguistic competence’ (Chomsky, 1965: 3), and that if any set of rules in the phonological section of the grammar is redundant it is the morphophonotactic rules, better known as morpheme structure conditions. I shall propose a format for the statement of rules (including so-called ‘conspiracies’) which are ‘motivated’ by the phonotactics in the sense of Matthews (1972: 219–220). Finally, I shall present a set of phonotactic rules for consonant clusters in Latin, and show how the statement of certain rules of Latin phonology can be simplified by taking their phonotactic motivation into account.
these passages, on the ground that, with its Herodotean connotations, it 'legt einen Abbruch ... more these passages, on the ground that, with its Herodotean connotations, it 'legt einen Abbruch des (dedanklichen) Fortschritts, eine Richtungsanderung des Gedankengangs nahe ... Eine solche Annahme soil aus der vorliegenden Untersuchung fernbleiben; es wird vielmehr von dem Postulat ausgegangen, dass die Berichte iiber die Vergangenheit einen unentbehrlichen Bestandteil des thukydideischen Gedankengangs bilden und zur Interpretation ihres Kontextes wesentlich beitragen' (3). For T., this postulate proves well founded: he concludes that, properly understood, these sections of Thucydides' History emerge 'als der wichtigste Ort (nach Thukydides' expliziten Kommentaren), an dem Thukydides' personliche Meinung iiber die von ihm in der Haupterzahlung dargestellten Vorgange zu suchen ist' (234). T. goes further: 'Die Berichte liber die Vergangenheit Musterbeispeile dafiir sind, wie Thukydides historische Erfahrung praktisch verwertet; an ihnen soil auch gezeigt werden, wie er die Niitzlichkeit seines eigenen Werkes verstand' (235).
As for the text itself, there are few differences from TrGF, to which the editors had access in a... more As for the text itself, there are few differences from TrGF, to which the editors had access in advance of publication. In a review of this length it is impossible to go into much detail, but a comparison of Gibert's Andromeda in this edition with Kannicht's text serves by way of illustration. Aside from minor matters of punctuation (use of commas here is kept to a minimum), there is little of significance to note. Fr. 120a [P.Oxy. 2628] is omitted. Fr. 122: lines 1034-5 appear as a single sentence; a greater proportion of the Aristophanic text is attributed to Euripides, and the division of lines is slightly different; on 1039 Scaliger's akk' is preferred to Aristophanes' dM.av. Fr. 130: ov Jiumoxe is printed (otrno) Kannicht). Fr. 137 is printed after fr. 143, among 'unplaced fragments'. Frr. 145-6 are transposed to follow fr. 137. Fr. 145: xr\c, (Tiberius) is retained in preference to xa (Kannicht, Nauck et al). Fr. 152: line 2 is obelized, but the apparatus does not record emendations (e.g. Grotius' uoipot(<;), accepted by Kannicht). Fr. 154: on line 2, Musgrave's (surely correct) ewojcEiv is adopted in preference to Stobaeus' eufoxei (printed, but obelized, by Kannicht).
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