Epiploke: Rhythmical Continuity and Poetic Structure in Greek Lyric

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Ancient metricians saw Greek verse in essentially paradigmatic terms, as a mosaic of discrete feet or phrases, each with its own name and each conforming, within a permitted range of variation, to some fixed model. The syntagmatic alternative to this view offered here represents the first attempt since the early nineteenth century to make a decisive break with inherited metrical categories and assumptions. It argues that feet and phrases, to the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674258223

ISBN13:9780674258228

Release Date:June 1988

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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