STUDIES IN THE LANGUAGE OF HIPPONAX

This book is a historical and comparative study of the language of Hipponax, a Greek poet of invective verse who lived in Ephesus in the middle of the sixth century BCE. Many factors invite the linguist to take a close look at the surviving fragments of his poetry--including a creative use of language that is coarse, parodic, barbaric, and sometimes delightfully obscene--his distinctive meter, and his relish for lexical rarities and foreign words borrowed from neighboring languages. The four chapters of the book cover the alphabet and matters related to letter forms, phonology, morphology, and loanwords. Throughout the book the author offers original solutions to linguistic, historical, and textual problems, while also touching on a range of issues such as performance, genre, style, religion, and myth. Shane Hawkins is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Aceasta carte este un studiu istoric si comparativ al limbii lui Hiponax, un poet grec de versuri invective care a trait in Efes la mijlocul secolului al VI-lea i.Hr. Multi factori il invita pe lingvist sa arunce o privire atenta asupra fragmentelor supravietuitoare ale poeziei sale - inclusiv o utilizare creativa a limbajului care este grosiera, parodica, barbara si, uneori, incantator de obscena - contorul sau distinctiv si gustul sau pentru raritati si cuvinte straine imprumutate din limbile invecinate.