Unlock how time shapes ancient Greek narrative. A careful study reveals how Thucydides links events through language, offering fresh insight into timing and meaning.
This scholarly work examines temporal conjunctions and verb forms in Thucydides, with a focus on how actions relate across time. It explains concepts like antecedence, contemporaneity, subsequence, and how different verb stems influence the sense of duration or completion. The analysis guides readers through how authors convey order, overlap, and limits in historical narration, using detailed examples from the text.
The book is a rigorous, methodical exploration designed for students and scholars of classics, linguistics, and ancient history. It presents a structured approach to interpreting temporal clauses and offers a framework for understanding how tense and aspect interact in ancient Greek rhetoric.
Ideal for readers of classical philology and historical linguistics seeking a precise, text-based view of timing in ancient Greek narrative.
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Paperback. Etat : New. Print on Demand. This book examines the use of conjunctional temporal clauses in the works of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides. The author provides an in-depth analysis of the various forms and structures of these clauses, exploring their temporal and logical relationships, examining the semantic nuances conveyed by different stems, and discussing mood, tense, and aspect in connection with temporal clauses. The author situates Thucydides' use of temporal clauses within the broader context of Greek literature, comparing and contrasting his approach with that of other authors. The book also explores the significance of temporal clauses in Thucydides' historical narrative, arguing that they play a crucial role in structuring the narrative and shaping the reader's understanding of the events described. Through a close examination of Thucydides' use of temporal clauses, the author offers valuable insights into the historian's craft and the development of Greek historical writing. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781333551186_0
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PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. N° de réf. du vendeur LW-9781333551186
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