GREEK 4457 - [Homeric Philology]

(crosslisted)
(also LING 4457)(HB) (LA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: ability to read Homeric Greek. Next offered 2014-2015.

A. Nussbaum.

Language of the Homeric epics: dialect background, archaisms, modernizations. Notion of a Kunstsprache: its constitution, use, and internal consistency. Phonological and morphological aspects of epic compositional technique.