Pythagoras and the Magi

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures and Diagrams XI
5. List of Tables XIII
6. Emilio Crespo Güemes: The Man and the Scholar XV
7. Publications of Prof. Emilio Crespo XXIII
8. Part I: Epigraphy and Dialectology
9. The Ionic of Lampsacus and the Month of Badromion 1
10. Reflexes of Koineization in Ancient Epirote Feminine Names 11
11. Women’s Names in the Lesbian Dialect 33
12. “Nicomachos Made Me!” Palaeography and Self-promotion in Late Archaic Greek Italy 43
13. Αn Arcadian Man Called Βôθις, or Rather Βόθις? 63
14. Verba Volant. Notes on Some Graffiti from Thasos 73
15. Modern Greek Evidence for Ancient Greek Dialects: The Case of Megarian 89
16. Part II: Lexicon, Onomastics, Morphology, and Morphophonology
17. The Noun for ‘Horse’ in Mycenaean and Some Related Terms 115
18. Greek δάρδα, ‘Bee’ 125
19. On Some Naming Constructions in Homeric Greek 129
20. On the “Kriaras” Lexicon of Medieval Vulgar Greek: Issues of Substance (MGL) 139
21. Getting There? Greek δύναμαι, ‘Be Able’ 151
22. The Κένταυρος Controversy Revisited: An Old Etymological Puzzle in a Comparative-Mythological Perspective 163
23. μνημονεύω 183
24. Sappho’s Little Cuddly Fawns: A Reply to an Alternative Proposal (Including a Few Remarks on the Semantics of the Adjectives in -ιος and -ειος) 185
25. Main Phonetic Changes in Ancient Greek Obscuring the PIE Ablaut 193
26. Part III: Syntax and Clause Structure
27. Reconstructing (Late) Proto-Indo-European Syntax: Absolute Constructions 215
28. Γίγνομαι as the Lexical Passive of the Support Verb ποιέω in Ancient Greek 227
29. On the Use of the Oblique Optative Dependent on Verba Dicendi in Herodotus 241
30. On Negation, Jespersen’s Cycle, and Negative Concord in Post-Classical Greek 253
31. A Construction Grammar Approach to Ancient Greek Argument Structure Constructions 265
32. Past Tenses of Modal Verbs: ἔδει and (ἐ)χρῆν in Attic Tragedy and Comedy 279
33. Relative Time and Narrative in Herodotus and Thucydides 291
34. Part IV: Pragmatics and Discourse
35. The Grammaticalization of μέντοι. Genesis and Scope Increase 309
36. Off- and On-record Complaints in Sophocles: An Initial Approach 323
37. A Note on the Anastrophe of περί with the Genitive in Classical Greek 335
38. Impersonalization as a Mechanism of Impoliteness in Aeschines and Demosthenes: A Study of οὐδείς and μηδείς 347
39. Discourse Markers, Interpretation, and Translation in the Lord’s Prayer 357
40. Evolution of πλήν 367
41. Discourse Markers ἔμπᾱς/ἔμπᾱν/ἔμπᾰ Compared with ἔμπης in the Archaic and Classical Periods 383
42. Part V: In the Linguistics-Philology Interstices
43. “Love Teaches”: Echoes of a Fragment from Euripides 397
44. Elis in Homer: Language, Archaeology, Epic Tradition 407
45. The Concept of ‘Emphasis’ in Ancient Greek and Indo-European 413
46. A Quantitative Tetrameter for Proto-Indo- European 439
47. Penis ex Machina as ‘Anticlimax’: ἐξέβαλ’, οἰῶ, τὸ ξίφος (Ar. Lys. 155–156) 463
48. Pythagoras and the Magi 473
49. List of Contributors 481
50. Index 489