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On the Role of Accent in Ancient Greek Poetry.
- Source :
- Mnemosyne; 2018, Vol. 71 Issue 4, p539-554, 16p, 7 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- In this paper, I set out to study the distribution of some accentual types of two different word shapes in the Homeric hexameter: iambs and iambic ending words and dactyls and dactylic ending words. Following Nagy 2000 and 2010 and David 2006, I start from the idea that accent has a role in Ancient Greek poetry, which has been corroborated in Abritta 2015 by studying the distribution of trochaic ending words. In the sections corresponding to each word shape, after a statistical consideration of the distribution, I examine some literary uses of accentual types, which the poet places in the line apparently in order to produce a certain effect on the audience. The article is conceived as a first approximation to the study of accentual distribution in Ancient Greek poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- GREEK poetry
STRESS (Linguistics)
POETS
PROSODIC analysis (Linguistics)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00267074
- Volume :
- 71
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Mnemosyne
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 130399632
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525X-12342375