Homer from Z to a

Metrics, Linguistics, and Zenodotus
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52233-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 732 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics

This book presents the first systematic linguistic study of Zenodotus’ variant readings, showing that he used a version of Homer older than the one used by Aristarchus a century later. Several clues point to the fact that Zenodotus’ version belongs to a tradition that was already distinct from that which eventually yielded the vulgate (that is, the Homer we know). In particular, his version largely pre-dates the Sophists’ reflections on language, rhetorics and style, and the grammatical theories of Alexandrian scholars.

The finding presented in this book should encourage not only historical linguists, but also philologists and classicists to revise the communis opinio and attentively consider Zenodotus’ readings in their research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Le Feuvre, Claire

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Homeric Scholarship and Zenodotus’ Status

2 Corpus

1 Zenodotus’ Text: An Overview

1 Types of Variant Readings

2 Linguistic Evidence for Zenodotus’ Text

3 Criteria of Discussion of Variant Readings

4 Old Forms in new clothes

5 Should a Zenodotean Older Reading Be Printed in a Modern Edition?

6 Zenodotus and Historical Linguistics

2 Sitting on an Old Tree

1 G 151–152: The Metrical Problem

2 Zenodotus’ Reading

3 Dialectal Trees

4 The Athematic Forms of d??d?e??

5 “Tree” and Its Proto-Indo-European Root

6 Back to Zenodotus

7 ?e?d??e??

3 “Demain dès l’aube” (Tomorrow at Dawn)

1 T 470: The Metrical Problem

2 T 470: The Syntactic Problem

3 Zenodotus’ Reading

4 Aeolic a?a/a?a

5 Proto-Indo-European Inflection of “Dawn”

6 Boeotian ????, Zenodotus’ ??a? and Sappho’s *a?a

7 ?a? d? and ???? d?

8 T 525

9 Chronology and Phonetic Evolution

10 Achaean Type te??e??

4 Stretching Arms

1 ? 351

2 A Linguistic Fossil

3 Yet Another Fossil

5 Matters of Perception

1 ? 37–38: The Hapax ??e???te?

2 Zenodotus’ Reading

3 Adverbs and Preverbs

4 µ 438–439

5 Elimination of ??

6 From Zenodotus’ Reading to the Vulgate

6 Cloaks and Coats

1 ???µa/???µa ? 137

2 ???t? ???s?e?? ? 47

3 ?e??s?e?? and ???s?e??

4 ???s??

5 A New Picture

6 Hesiod’s ???µa

7 Straight Shaft and Straight Flight

1 The hapax ???pt?´??

2 ?????p?d???

3 Zenodotus’ Reading

4 Reconstruction and Etymology

5 The Vulgate’s Reading

8 Hollow Lacedaemon, Its Reeds, Its Crevices …

1 Achaean ???e???

2 ?????? ?a?eda?µ??a ??t?essa? # ? 581

3 What Was Zenodotus’ Spelling?

4 ?a?t?essa? in Its Context

5 Reanalysis and Secondary Use

6 Remotivating the New Form

9 Reeds Again

1 S 576: The Vulgate’s Reading

2 Zenodotus’ Reading

3 The Preposition and the Status of ?e??d??

10 Homer the Master of Rhetorics

1 ? 681

2 ? 60

3 ? 70–71

4 ? 458

5 G 210–211

6 O 190–191

Synthesis

Conclusion

Appendix: The Corpus

Bibliography

Index Verborum

Index Locorum

Index Grammaticorum