Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 621 Seiten)
Edition:
Reproduktion Issued also in print
ISBN:
9783111382890
Series Statement:
Purism in Antiquity 1.1
Content:
This volume is the first of four devoted to Atticism, a form of linguistic purism that sought to preserve the rules of the 5th-century Attic dialect against the evolution of Postclassical Greek. The series elucidates the origins and development of Atticist thought, as well as its impact, transmission, and legacy from the Byzantine Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Although Atticism flourished in the Imperial age, its roots are steeped in the previous centuries. This volume investigates the broad historical, cultural, and linguistic factors leading to the emergence of Attic as a prestige variety among the classical Greek dialects, the way Attic exclusivity was construed in Athenian literary sources, and how Hellenistic scholarship contributed to monumentalising Attic supremacy. Atticism can be regarded as the first example of an intellectual movement seeking to promote an extinct variety to the status of linguistic standard, reflecting an ideological and nostalgic view of identity. This volume traces the roots of this linguistic phenomenon back to factors at work in the construction of Hellenicity in the archaic and classical periods
Note:
Frontmatter -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations and reference editions -- Chapter 1 Ancient Greek purism: An introduction -- Chapter 2 Atticism as a form of linguistic purism -- Chapter 3 Dialect, identity, and the invention of Athenian exceptionalism -- Chapter 4 The one and the many: Athenian views on Attic -- Chapter 5 Attic in the flesh: The language of late Attic comedy and its Atticist reception -- Chapter 6 Before Atticism: Early Hellenistic scholarship on Attic -- Chapter 7 Towards Atticism: The blossoming of Hellenistic scholarship on Attic -- References -- Index locorum -- Index nominum et rerum
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Issued also in print
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111382975
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111350752
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9783111350752
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783111382890
Author information:
Favi, Federico
Author information:
Tribulato, Olga 1975-
