Andreas Willi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5626503 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andreas Willi |
| NOMBRES | Andreas |
| APELLIDO | Willi |
| FIRMA | WILLI A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8694-2845 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Perceptions and Social Uses of the Ancient Greek Dialects
Contextualizing Comedy
Right from its beginnings in the Alexandrian period, ancient scholarship on Aristophanes showed a particular interest not only in the linguistic and historical explanation of the comedies, but also in the intertextual connections between them and their many intertexts. By surveying the piecemeal and often elusive evidence provided by the Aristophanic scholia, the present contribution seeks to map out both the achievements and the limitations of t…
Protagoras and the Beginnings of Grammar
Offering a re-evaluation of all the available evidence, including passages from Aristotle's Rhetoric , Poetics and Sophistici Elenchi , Diogenes Laertius’ biographical sketch as well as the grammar scene in Aristophanes’ Clouds , this article argues that Protagoras’ engagement with grammatical questions must have been more sophisticated and thorough than is often assumed. In Protagoras’ discovery of grammatical gender, formal considerations – mos…
Oscan Eítuns
Among the Oscan epigraphic data from Pompeii there is a group of texts commonly known as ‘eítuns inscriptions’ after the keyword they contain. All of these were painted in red on the wall of buildings, usually at a certain height from the ground (c. 1.8–3m) and close to a street corner, so as to be easily visible and readable
Origins of the Greek Verb
“Origins of the Greek Verb” is a book situated at the crossroads of Classical Studies, Indo-European comparative philology, and general historical linguistics. Setting out from a descriptive overview of the verbal system of Ancient Greek, it sketches a comprehensive new picture of the prehistoric developments which led to the historical appearance of this system and, in particular, to the complexities and surface irregularities that characterise …
Register Variation and Tense/Aspect/Mood Categories in Ancient Greek
Among the grammatical features whose preferential use in Ancient Greek is at least partly determined by considerations of linguistic register, we also find a number of phenomena relating to the categories of tense, aspect, and mood. However, these are not always easy to pin down, both because register variation may intersect with diachronic and/or regional variation and because they rarely manifest themselves as absolute rules. After exploring th…
Further Thoughts on the Syntax of Il. 5.265-269
In response to a recent article by P. Probert on the same passage, it is argued that we need not assume that Il. 5.265-269 obliquely refers to an otherwise unknown ‘stud farm’ of Zeus if we want to maintain that the phenomenon of attractio relativi is only attested in post-Homeric times. The relative pronoun ἧς on which Probert’s reading is based should rather be understood as representing either a ‘descriptive’ genitive or, even more likely, an …
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole, integrating literary questions (such as characterisation, dramatic technique or diction) with contextual ones (for example …
‘We speak Peloponnesian’
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Laws and Rules in Indo‐European
This book examines the operation of laws, rules, and principles in the Indo-European language family; within this family, the book delves into the Celtic, Germanic, Italic/Romance, Armenian, Greek, and Indo-Iranian languages as well as Proto-Indo-European itself. Laws or rules are crucial to Indo-European studies: they constrain the reconstructions and etymologies on which our knowledge of the history and prehistory of ancient languages is based,…
Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily
Within the field of ancient bilingualism, Sicily represents a unique terrain for analysis as a result of its incredibly rich linguistic history, in which 'colonial' languages belonging to branches as diverse as Italic (Oscan and Latin), Greek and Semitic (Phoenician) interacted with the languages of the natives (the elusive Sicel, Sicanian and Elymian). The result of this ancient melting-pot was a culture characterised by 'postcolonial' features …
Antike Literatur in Neuer Deutung
Theater Outside Athens
This volume brings together archeologists, art historians, philologists, literary scholars, political scientists, and historians to articulate the ways in which western Greek theater was distinct from that of the Greek mainland and, at the same time, to investigate how the two traditions interacted. The chapters intersect and build on each other in their pursuit of a number of shared questions and themes: the place of theater in the cultural life…
Language, Homeric
Campaigning for utilitas
INTRODUCTION C. Iulius Caesar is not a name that readily springs to mind in the context of an inquiry into the relationship between ‘colloquial’ and literary Latin; for ‘Caesar is incomparably the most “correct” of classical authors, if by “correct” we mean that he observes the “rules” of Latin orthography, grammar and word-order that would later become standardised by Palaemon and others’ (Hall 1998: 18). Caesar's linguistic self-discipline, whi…
The Language of Old Comedy
Among the literary genres of classical antiquity, Attic Old Comedy is perhaps the one in which language plays the most important role. This chapter concentrates on general topics such as the generic background and methodological considerations, Old Comedy's basic grammar, dialect variation, and stylistic variation. The staging of characters who speak a dialect other than Attic is one of the best-known cases of linguistic variation in Old Comedy. …
To be or not to be
Cows, Houses, Hooks
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Conclusion
This chapter presents a synthesis of discussions in the preceding chapters. The most important conclusion from studying the six Aristophanic case studies is that it is feasible to operate with categories of variation which are more fine-grained than the well-known ones of ‘foreign dialect’, ‘paratragic style’, or ‘colloquial language’. The universally recognised absence of linguistic continuity in Aristophanes, and the lack of continuous linguist…
‘Scientific Discourse’
This chapter shows how Aristophanes created in Clouds a distinct ‘scientific discourse’, even though he does not make use of technical language as such. It argues that Aristophanes compensated for the absence of high-profile technical languages by substituting linguistic material taken from, or linked to, the tradition of Presocratic scientific poetry.
Female Speech
This chapter recapitulates female-speech features in Aristophanes and relates this data to modern gender-linguistic theories. It begins by discussing basic concepts in sociolinguistic research on women's language and situates the Athenian linguistic world in this framework. It then gives a catalogue of gender-specific features in Aristophanic language. Finally, the chapter interprets these features using concepts presented in the first part. Some…
Religious Registers
Sophistic Innovations
Given the prominent role of language in sophistic culture, it is not surprising that language in repeatedly thematized in Aristophanes’ comedy Clouds. Throughout the play, there are scenes in which Aristophanes highlights various innovative features of word formation and morphosyntax, so as to create a sophistic ‘atmosphere’. None of these features is exclusive to Clouds, an in some way Aristophanes’ treatment of them seems paradoxical. However, …
Foreigner Talk
This chapter presents a textual criticism of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae. The final scenes in Thesmophoriazusae involve extensive dialogues between the Scythian and his prisoner, and between the Scythian and Euripides, who wants to rescue his Relative. These scenes are of particular interest because Aristophanes makes the Scythian speak broken Greek and thus produces the most extensive ancient sample of a ‘simplified register’. Simplified reg…
Languages From the World of the Bible
The alphabetic script is part of the lasting heritage of the ancient Near East. It unites a number of newly-emerging civilizations in ancient Syria-Palestine, which together constitute the immediate background of the Hebrew Bible. Transformed by the impact of Hellenism, they also shaped the social-historical and cultural setting of the New Testament. This work presents fresh and concise yet thorough overviews of the relevant languages and their i…
The Languages of Aristophanes
1. Introduction 2. Religious registers 3. Technical languages 4. 'Scientific discourse' 5. Sophistic innovations 6. Female speech 7. Foreigner talk 8. Conclusion Appendix: Aristophanes' Attic: A grammatical sketch
The Language of Greek Comedy
The contributions to this book illustrate how linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. Topics discussed include the relationship of comedy and iambus, the world of Doric comedy in Sicily, figures of speech and obscene vocabulary in Aristophanes, comic elements in tragedy, language and cultural identity in 5th-century Athens,…
Cows, Houses, Hooks
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Languages on Stage
This chapter aims to retrace Athenian sociocultural attitudes and classifications through their reflection in comic language. A linguistic analysis of various levels of comic discourse leads to the reconstruction of three circles of Athenian identity. This discussion is based on two theoretical premises: (1) every ancient text is the intentional intellectual product of one (or rarely, several subsequent) author(s) and contains a set of conscious …
The Language of Greek Comedy
This chapter identifies the conceptual links between the different chapters in this book. It attempts to help further research along similar lines by presenting in separated paragraphs some of the work that has been done by others. It also provides a literary history of comic form and expression.
The Language of Greek Comedy
The contributions to this book illustrate how linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. Topics discussed include the relationship of comedy and iambus, the world of Doric comedy in Sicily, figures of speech and obscene vocabulary in Aristophanes, comic elements in tragedy, language and cultural identity in 5th-century Athens,…
New language for a New Comedy
Aristophanes' Plutus is often regarded as a dull play. According to two of the leading specialists on Aristophanes in Great Britain, the comedy displays ‘a certain amount of disjointedness in its moral and religious themes, and a certain lack of energy in its humour’, and the modern reader feels a ‘decline in freshness, in verbal agility, in sparkle of wit, in theatrical inventiveness’. Others regret alleged or real inconsistencies, the lack of p…
The Languages of Aristophanes
1. Introduction 2. Religious registers 3. Technical languages 4. 'Scientific discourse' 5. Sophistic innovations 6. Female speech 7. Foreigner talk 8. Conclusion Appendix: Aristophanes' Attic: A grammatical sketch
Flowing Riches
Flicking through the etymological dictionaries of Greek can be a sobering experience: ‘unklar’, ‘unerkärt ‘inconnue’, and ‘obscure’ seem to be among Frisk’s and Chantraine’s favourite lexemes. At first sight, it may look as if there were not much harm in this: if weunderstand what Homer and Plato meant, why should we want to find out what Homer’s and Plato’s ancestors would have understood, had they read the same texts? However, ignoring etymolog…
Poétique au seuil de l'alexandrinisme
English summary: Poetics at the Threshold of Alexandrinism: Theocritus ' Idyll 16. Theocritus' Idyll 16 is often read as a poem of praise and/or request addressed to Hieron II of Syracuse. However, the existence of a double title, Charites or Hieron, suggests that such a reading does not do justice to the intrinsic complexity of the poem. By analysing the function of the charites within the text and by comparing the tradition of praise poetry bef…
Old Persian in Athens Revisited (Ar. Ach. 100)
The Old Persian line in Aristophanes' Acharnians (100) is commonly believed to contain nothing but comic gibberish. Against this view, it is argued here that a responsible reconstruction of an Old Persian original is possible if one takes into account what we nowadays know about late fifth-century Old Persian. Moreover, the result, whose central element is the Persian verb for 'writing',fits in with both general considerations on linguistic reali…
The Language of Greek Comedy
Sophron’s Mimes
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Conclusion
This chapter presents a synthesis of discussions in the preceding chapters. The most important conclusion from studying the six Aristophanic case studies is that it is feasible to operate with categories of variation which are more fine-grained than the well-known ones of ‘foreign dialect’, ‘paratragic style’, or ‘colloquial language’. The universally recognised absence of linguistic continuity in Aristophanes, and the lack of continuous linguist…
‘Scientific Discourse’
This chapter shows how Aristophanes created in Clouds a distinct ‘scientific discourse’, even though he does not make use of technical language as such. It argues that Aristophanes compensated for the absence of high-profile technical languages by substituting linguistic material taken from, or linked to, the tradition of Presocratic scientific poetry.
Female Speech
This chapter recapitulates female-speech features in Aristophanes and relates this data to modern gender-linguistic theories. It begins by discussing basic concepts in sociolinguistic research on women's language and situates the Athenian linguistic world in this framework. It then gives a catalogue of gender-specific features in Aristophanic language. Finally, the chapter interprets these features using concepts presented in the first part. Some…
Religious Registers
Sophistic Innovations
Given the prominent role of language in sophistic culture, it is not surprising that language in repeatedly thematized in Aristophanes’ comedy Clouds. Throughout the play, there are scenes in which Aristophanes highlights various innovative features of word formation and morphosyntax, so as to create a sophistic ‘atmosphere’. None of these features is exclusive to Clouds, an in some way Aristophanes’ treatment of them seems paradoxical. However, …
Foreigner Talk
This chapter presents a textual criticism of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae. The final scenes in Thesmophoriazusae involve extensive dialogues between the Scythian and his prisoner, and between the Scythian and Euripides, who wants to rescue his Relative. These scenes are of particular interest because Aristophanes makes the Scythian speak broken Greek and thus produces the most extensive ancient sample of a ‘simplified register’. Simplified reg…
Technical Languages
This chapter focuses on the concept of technical language. It provides the theoretical background for the study of technical languages in comedy, and critically reviews some of the evidence collected by earlier researchers. It argues that technical languages are far less prominent in Aristophanes' plays than is often assumed — an observation which does not in the least lessen the poet's linguistic achievements. The chapter also considers why tech…
Demeter, Gê and the Indo-European word(s) for >earth<
Demeter, Gê and the Indo-European word(s) for >earth<
Cows, Houses, Hooks
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To be or not to be
Campaigning for utilitas
INTRODUCTION C. Iulius Caesar is not a name that readily springs to mind in the context of an inquiry into the relationship between ‘colloquial’ and literary Latin; for ‘Caesar is incomparably the most “correct” of classical authors, if by “correct” we mean that he observes the “rules” of Latin orthography, grammar and word-order that would later become standardised by Palaemon and others’ (Hall 1998: 18). Caesar's linguistic self-discipline, whi…
The Language of Old Comedy
Among the literary genres of classical antiquity, Attic Old Comedy is perhaps the one in which language plays the most important role. This chapter concentrates on general topics such as the generic background and methodological considerations, Old Comedy's basic grammar, dialect variation, and stylistic variation. The staging of characters who speak a dialect other than Attic is one of the best-known cases of linguistic variation in Old Comedy. …
Language, Homeric
‘We speak Peloponnesian’
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