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Greek Forms of Address: From Herodotus to Lucian

By Eleanor Dickey

Book information

Year
1996
ISBN
0198150547, 9780198150541
LCC
PA423 .D53 1996
Open Library ID
OL976325M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
40 MB (42189640 bytes)
Series
Oxford Classical Monographs
Pages
360\357
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

How did an Athenian citizen address his wife, his children, his dog? How did they address him? The only evidence we have is in the form of written texts, but how close are these to spoken ancient Greek? Based on a corpus of 11,891 vocatives from 25 authors, Dickey uses sociolinguistic techniques and evidence to answer these questions.

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