Victor Bers

Biographic Data

ID	446362
NAME	Victor Bers
GIVEN NAMES	Victor
FAMILY NAME	Bers
SIGNATURE	BERS V
AFFILIATIONS	Yale University
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	22
TOTAL CITATIONS	47
AUTHOR COUNT	22
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2022
H-INDEX	3

Speakers Diffident and Speakers Brash in the Athenian Courts
Victor BersARTICLETrends in Classics2022
In many of the surviving Athenian law court speeches, litigants and sunēgoroi claim that, as amateurs, they come to trial at a disadvantage. Occasionally, they acknowledge a reputation for wishing to advance themselves by a display of rhetorical abilities. Whatever stance the speaker takes, these maneuvers add to the complex texture of Attic oratory. We find a remarkable variety of approaches, e. And the orator who has, however falsely, spoken to…
Kunstprosa: Philosophy, History, Oratory
Open AccessVictor BersOTHERA Companion to the Ancient Greek…2010
This chapter contains sections titled: A Pervasive and Persistent Menu of Choices First Texts: Anaxagoras and Others Heraclitus Gorgias Herodotus Thucydides Plato Oratory Further Reading
Greek Forms of Address from Herodotus to Lucian
Victor Bers, Eleanor DickeyARTICLEThe Classical World2000
How did an Athenian citizen address his wife? His children, his slaves, and his dog? How did they address him? This book is the first major application of linguistic theories of address to an ancient language. It is based on a corpus of 11,891 vocatives from twenty-five prose authors from Herodotus to Lucian, and on comparative data from Aristophanes, Menander, and other sources; the data are analysed using techniques and evidence from the field …
Speech in Speech: Studies in Incorporated Oratio Recta in Attic Drama and Oratory
John R Porter, Victor BersARTICLEPhoenix1998
This volume explores the techniques by which classical Greek texts written primarily for public performance incorporate direct quotations (oratio recta) of 'other voices' - imagined or real
Sophoclea: Studies on the Text of Sophocles
Victor Bers, Hugh Lloyd-Jones et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1991Cited by: 8
Historical survey of Sophoclean scholarship Commentary on Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Trachiniae, Philoctetes, Oedipus Coloneus Appendix Bibliography Indexes
Theatre in Crisis: Sophocles' Reconstruction of Genre and Politics in Philoctetes
Victor Bers, Carola GreengardARTICLEThe Classical World1991Cited by: 3
Sophocles: Antigone and Oedipus the King. A Companion to the Penguin Translation
Victor Bers, John Wilkins et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1989
Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
Victor Bers, Lowell EdmundsARTICLEThe Classical World1988
Poetic Craft in the Early Greek Elegists
Victor Bers, A W H AdkinsBOOKPhoenix1987Cited by: 16
The Lost Sophocles
Victor Bers, Akiko Kiso et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1986
Sophocle
Victor Bers, Jacqueline De RomillyARTICLEThe Classical World1985
Greek Poetic Syntax in the Classical Age
Gareth Morgan, Victor BersARTICLEThe Classical World1985
Greek Poetic Syntax in the Classical Age
Victor BersBOOKGreek Poetic Syntax in the…1984
Kontext und Aspekt in der altgriechischen Prosa Herodots
Victor Bers, Heinrich HettrichARTICLEThe Classical World1977Cited by: 2
Index Locorum
Victor BersCHAPTEREnallage and Greek Style1974
Enallage in Pindar and the Tragedians
Victor BersCHAPTEREnallage and Greek Style1974
Appendixes
Victor BersCHAPTEREnallage and Greek Style1974
Evidence for Enallage as Archaism
Victor BersCHAPTEREnallage and Greek Style1974
Enallage: Is There Such a Thing?
Victor BersCHAPTEREnallage and Greek Style1974
Preliminary Material
Victor BersCHAPTEREnallage and Greek Style1974
The Origin of Enallage
Victor BersCHAPTEREnallage and Greek Style1974
Enallage and Greek Style
Victor BersBOOKEnallage and Greek Style1974Cited by: 18

Index Locorum
Victor BersCHAPTEREnallage and Greek Style1974
Enallage in Pindar and the Tragedians
Victor BersCHAPTEREnallage and Greek Style1974
Appendixes
Victor BersCHAPTEREnallage and Greek Style1974
Evidence for Enallage as Archaism
Victor BersCHAPTEREnallage and Greek Style1974
Enallage: Is There Such a Thing?
Victor BersCHAPTEREnallage and Greek Style1974
Preliminary Material
Victor BersCHAPTEREnallage and Greek Style1974
The Origin of Enallage
Victor BersCHAPTEREnallage and Greek Style1974
Enallage and Greek Style
Victor BersBOOKEnallage and Greek Style1974Cited by: 18
Kontext und Aspekt in der altgriechischen Prosa Herodots
Victor Bers, Heinrich HettrichARTICLEThe Classical World1977Cited by: 2
Greek Poetic Syntax in the Classical Age
Victor BersBOOKGreek Poetic Syntax in the…1984
Sophocle
Victor Bers, Jacqueline De RomillyARTICLEThe Classical World1985
Greek Poetic Syntax in the Classical Age
Gareth Morgan, Victor BersARTICLEThe Classical World1985
The Lost Sophocles
Victor Bers, Akiko Kiso et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1986
Poetic Craft in the Early Greek Elegists
Victor Bers, A W H AdkinsBOOKPhoenix1987Cited by: 16
Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
Victor Bers, Lowell EdmundsARTICLEThe Classical World1988
Sophocles: Antigone and Oedipus the King. A Companion to the Penguin Translation
Victor Bers, John Wilkins et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1989
Sophoclea: Studies on the Text of Sophocles
Victor Bers, Hugh Lloyd-Jones et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1991Cited by: 8
Historical survey of Sophoclean scholarship Commentary on Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Trachiniae, Philoctetes, Oedipus Coloneus Appendix Bibliography Indexes
Theatre in Crisis: Sophocles' Reconstruction of Genre and Politics in Philoctetes
Victor Bers, Carola GreengardARTICLEThe Classical World1991Cited by: 3
Speech in Speech: Studies in Incorporated Oratio Recta in Attic Drama and Oratory
John R Porter, Victor BersARTICLEPhoenix1998
This volume explores the techniques by which classical Greek texts written primarily for public performance incorporate direct quotations (oratio recta) of 'other voices' - imagined or real
Greek Forms of Address from Herodotus to Lucian
Victor Bers, Eleanor DickeyARTICLEThe Classical World2000
How did an Athenian citizen address his wife? His children, his slaves, and his dog? How did they address him? This book is the first major application of linguistic theories of address to an ancient language. It is based on a corpus of 11,891 vocatives from twenty-five prose authors from Herodotus to Lucian, and on comparative data from Aristophanes, Menander, and other sources; the data are analysed using techniques and evidence from the field …
Kunstprosa: Philosophy, History, Oratory
Open AccessVictor BersOTHERA Companion to the Ancient Greek…2010
This chapter contains sections titled: A Pervasive and Persistent Menu of Choices First Texts: Anaxagoras and Others Heraclitus Gorgias Herodotus Thucydides Plato Oratory Further Reading
Speakers Diffident and Speakers Brash in the Athenian Courts
Victor BersARTICLETrends in Classics2022
In many of the surviving Athenian law court speeches, litigants and sunēgoroi claim that, as amateurs, they come to trial at a disadvantage. Occasionally, they acknowledge a reputation for wishing to advance themselves by a display of rhetorical abilities. Whatever stance the speaker takes, these maneuvers add to the complex texture of Attic oratory. We find a remarkable variety of approaches, e. And the orator who has, however falsely, spoken to…