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Advanced Greek Prose Composition
Classics 419, fall 2006
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:10-11:25 (Room TBA)
Jeffrey Rusten, Cornell University

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Books Required (available at the Campus Store)

Campbell, Malcolm. Classical Greek Prose : A Basic Vocabulary : A Classified List of 1500 of the Commonest Words. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1998.

Stephens, Susan A. Greek Prose Composition. 2 vols, Bryn Mawr Greek Commentaries. Bryn Mawr, Pa.: Thomas Library Bryn Mawr College, 1996. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.

Dilts, Mervin R. (ed.) Demosthenis Orationes vol. I (orations 1-18); Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002. ISBN: 0198721684.

Gagarin, Michael. (ed.) Antiphon: The Speeches: Cambridge University Press, 1997. paperback ISBN-13: 9780521389310 | ISBN-10: 0521389313.

Carey, Christopher. (ed.) Lysias: Selected Speeches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521269889 | ISBN-10: 0521269881).

Rowe, C. J. (ed.). Plato's Phaedrus. London: Aris and Philips, 1988. ISBN 0856683140. Paperback. Price US $28.00.

Bowen, A. J. (ed.). Xenophon: Symposium. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1998. ISBN 0856686824. Paperback. Price US $22.00.

Newmyer, Stephen Thomas. Herodotus Book III, Bryn Mawr Commentaries. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1986. Paper: $14.50 (0-929524-14-4)

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

(*on permanent reserve in Olin 605; ** to be placed on temporary reserve there for this course)

Reference

Blass, Friedrich. Die attische Beredsamkeit. Leipzig (3 vols. in 4 parts): 1874-1893. In Olin 605.
Calder, William M. III. 1965. Index Locorum zu Kühner-Gerth. Darmstadt
*Denniston, J. D. 1954. The Greek Particles. Oxford
Dickey, Eleanor. 1996. Greek Forms of Address from Herodotus to Lucian. Oxford
Koster, W. J. W. 1976. Practical Guide to the Writing of Greek Accents. Leiden
Norden, Eduard. 1882. Die antike Kunstprosa vom VI. Jhdt. vor Chrisus bis in die Zeit der Renaissance. 2 vols. Leipzig
*Pape, Wilhelm and Gustav Eduard Benseler. 1959. Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen. Orbis litterarum. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt.
Rijksbaron, Albert. 1994. The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek: An Introduction. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben.
*Smyth, H. W. 1957. Greek Grammar. Cambridge, Massachusetts revised by Gordon Messing.
Thesleff, Holger. Studies in Intensification
Usher, Stephen. 1999. Greek Oratory: Tradition and Originality. Oxford.
Welch, John W., ed. 1999. Chiasmus in antiquity : structures, analyses, exegesis Provo, Utah: Research Press.
*Woodhouse, S.C. 1910. English-Greek Dictionary. London

Compositions and Sample Readings

Beazley, J. D. 1911. Herodotus at the zoo. Oxford,: Blackwell. Gaisford prize - Greek prose, 1907.
EBSCO Publishing (Firm) and ProQuest Information and Learning Company. Vital speeches of the day. New York,: The City News Pub. Co. Oct. 8, 1931-present.
Nash-Williams, A. H. 1959. Key to Advanced Greek Prose Composition
---. 1966. Advanced Level Greek Prose Composition. New York
North, M. A. and A. E. Hillard. 2000. Greek prose composition for schools. London: Duckworth.
Pitman, H. 1899. Introduction to Greek Prose Composition. London
Sidgwick, Arthur. 1879. Introduction to Greek prose composition : with exercises. Boston: Ginn and Heath.
Stephens, Susan A. 1996. Greek prose composition. Bryn Mawr Greek commentaries. Indianapolis: Hackett.
Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich von. 1902. Griechisches Lesebuch. Berlin

Stylistic Criticism

Aristotle, et al. 1995. Poetics. Loeb classical library ; 199. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Aristotle ; edited and translated by Stephen Halliwell. On the sublime / Longinus ; translation by W.H. Fyfe ; revised by Donald Russell. On style / Demetrius ; edited and translated by Doreen C. Innes ; based on W. Rhys Roberts.
Barthes, Roland. 1986. "Style and Its Image". In The Rustle of Language, 90-99 New York
Chantraine, Pierre. 1950. "La stylistique grecque". In Actes du premier congrès internationale des études classiques, 339-360 Paris
**Denniston, J. D. 1952. Greek prose style. Oxford,: Clarendon Press.
Dover, K. J. 1960. Greek Word Order. Cambridge.
**---. 1997. The Evolution of Greek Prose Style. Oxford.
Fish, Stanley. 1980. "What is Stylistics and Why are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?" In Is There a Text in This Class? the Authority of Interpretative Communities, 68-96 Cambridge, Mass.
Frye, Northrop. 1963. "A Manual of Style". In The Well-Tempered Critic, 55-108 Bloomington, Indiana
Lanham, Richard. 1983. Analyzing Prose. New York
Muir, J. V. 2001. Alcidamas: The works and fragments. London: Bristol Classical Press.
O'Sullivan, Neil. 1992. Alcidamas, Aristophanes and the beginnings of Greek stylistic theory. Hermes. Einzelschriften ; Heft 60. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner.
Queneau, Raymond. 1981. Exercises in style. New York: New Directions. Translation by Barbara Wright of 1st ed. (1947) of Exercices de style.
---. 1982. Exercices de style. Paris: Gallimard.
Rosier, L. 1999. le discours rapporté. histoire, théories, pratiques. Paris/Brussels: Duculot.
Usher, Stephen. 1974. Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Critical Essays: Loeb Classical Library (2 vols.).

Early Greek Prose

Jouanna, Jacques. 1990. Hippocrate: l'ancienne medicine. Paris: les belles lettres. Hippocrate tome II 1re Partie.
Lilja, Saara. 1968. On the Style of the Earliest Greek Prose. Helsinki: Commentationes Litterarum, Societas Scientiarum Fennica, vol. 41.3.
Meillet, Antoine. 1975. "La prose ionienne et la prose attique". In Aperçu d' une histoire de la langue grecque, 229-246 2nd ed. Paris
**Schiefsky, Mark John. 2005. Hippocrates on ancient medicine. Studies in ancient medicine. Leiden ; Boston: Brill.
Snell, Bruno. 1966. "Die Sprache Heraklits." Gesammelte Schriften: 129-151.
Thesleff, Holger. 1966. "Scientific and Technical Style in Early Greek Prose." Arctos 4: 89-113.
von Fritz, Kurt. 1949. "The So-called Historical Present in Early Greek." Word 5: 186-201.

Herodotus

Aly, Wolf. 1921. Volksmärchen, Sage und Novelle bei Herodot und seinen Zeitgenossen. Göttingen
---. 1927. "Herodots Sprache." Glotta 15: 84-117.
Asheri, David. 1990. Erodoto, le storie, libro III: la persia: Mondadori.
Beazley, J. D. 1911. Herodotus at the zoo. Oxford,: Blackwell. Gaisford prize - Greek prose, 1907.
Beck, Ingrid. 1971. Die Ringkomposition bei Herodot und ihre Bedeutung für die Beweistechnik Spudasmata 25.
Chamberlain, David. ""We the others": Interpretative Community and Plural Voice in Herodotus." CA 20: 5-24.
Cooper, Guy L. 1974. "Intrusive Oblique Infinitives in Herodotus." TAPA 104: 23-76.
Hartog, François. 1988. "The Eye and the Ear". In The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History, 260-311 Berkeley
Kerschensteiner, Jula. 1964. "Zum Gebrauch der Parenthese bei Herodot." Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 17: 29-50.
Lang, Mabel. 1984. Herodotean Narrative Structure and Discourse: Harvard University Press.
Lateiner, Donald. 2002. "The Style of Herodotus: A Case Study (7.229)." CW 95: 363-371.
Long, Timothy. 1987. Repetition and Variation in the Short Stories of Herodotus. Meisenheim
Müller, Dietram. 1980. Satzbau, Satzgliederung und Satzverbindung in der Prosa Herodots. Meisenheim Beiträge zue klassischen Philologie vol. 116.
Munson, Rosaria. 1993. "Herodotus' Use of Prospective Sentences: the Story of Rhampsinitus and the Thief in the Histories." AJP 114: 27-44.
Newmyer, Stephen Thomas. 1986. Herodotus Book III. Bryn Mawr Commentaries. Indianapolis: Hackett.
Payen, Pascal. 1990. "Discours historique et structures narratives chez Hérodote." Annales: Économies, Sociétés, Civilizations: 527-550.
Powell, J. E. Lexicon to Herodotus
Trenkner, Sophie. 1958. The Greek Novella in the Classical Period. Cambridge

Antiphon

Gagarin, Michael. 1997. Antiphon: the Speeches: Cambridge University Press.
Zuntz, Günther. "Earliest Attic Prose Style: on Antiphon's Second Tetralogy". In Opuscula Selecta, 18-37 = Class et Med 2 (1939) 121-144.

Thucydides

Alexander, W. J. 1883. "Participial Periphrases in Attic Prose." AJP 4: 291-308.
Bachhammer, F. 1921. Die Spaltung eng verbundener Woerter bei Thucydides. Diss. Erlangen
Bakker, Egbert. "Verbal Aspect and Mimetic Description in Thucydides". In Grammar as Interpretation. ed. Bakker et al, 7-54 vol. 171. Mnemosyne Supplement Volume
Balser, Hermannus. 1878. de linguae graecae participio in neutro genere substantive posito. Leipzig
Behrendt, Gustav. 1886. "Über den Gebrauch des Infinitivs mit Artikel bei Thucydides." Wissenshchaftliche Beilage zum Programm des Sophien-Gymnasiums zu Berlin
**Cameron, H. D. 2003. Thucydides Book 1 : a students' grammatical commentary. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Cooper, Guy L and K. W Krüger. 1998. Attic Greek prose syntax. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Darpe, Franciscus. 1865. de verborum apud Thucydidem collocatione. Münster
Diener, Osvaldus. 1889. De Sermone Thucydidis quatenus cum Herodoto congruens differat a scriptoribus Atticis: Leipzig
Hammer, Bernd. 1904. De te partiulae usu Herodoteo Thucydideo Xenophonteo. Dissertation Leipzig
Hillesus, Ludovicus Jacobus. 1908. De imperfecti at aoristi use thucydideo (pars prior). Disseration Amsterdam
Lang, Mabel. 1995. "Participial Motivation in Thucydides." Mnemosyne 48: 48-65.
Lüdtke, Wilhelm. 1930. Untersuchungen zum Satzbau des Thucydides (das sog. Anakoluth). Leipzig Diss. Kiel.
Parry, Adam. 1970. "Thucydides' Use of Abstract Language." Yale French Studies 45: 3-20.
---. 1981. Logos and Ergon in Thucydides: Ayer, NH. Harvard diss. 1957.
Pritchett, W. K. 1975. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Thucydides. Berkeley
Rosenkranz, Bernhard. 1930. "der lokale Grundton und die persönliche Eigenart in der Sprache des Thukydides un der älteren attischen Redner." IF 48: 127-178.
Scheiding, H. 1867. "De hyperbato Thucydideo." Städtisches evangelisches Gymnasium zu Jauer, Programm (1-16)
Sihler, E. G. 1881. "On the Verbal Abstract Nouns in -sis in Thucydides." TAPA 12: 96-104.
Spratt, A. W. 1905. "The Order of Words in Thucydides". In Thucydides Book VI, ed. with introd. and notes, xxxi-xliii Cambridge
Stanford, W. B. 1940-41. "Tzetzes' Farewell to Thucydides." G & R 11: 40-1.
Vos, J. G. A. 1968. Die metabole (Variation) als Stilprinzip des Thukydides

Xenophon

Bowen, A. J. 1998. Xenophon: Symposium. Warminster: Aris & Phillips.
Winans, Samuel Ross. 1881. Xenophon's Symposium with Introduction and Notes. Boston: John Allyn Publisher.

Demosthenes

**Davies, Gilbert A. 1907. Demothenes, Philippics I, II, III. Pitt press series. Cambridge: University Press. Demosthenes.
Dilts, Mervin R. 2002. Demosthenis Orationes. Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
Pearson, Lionel. 1975. "The Virtuoso Passages in Demosthenes' Speeches." Phoenix 29: 214-230.
---. 1976. The Art of Demosthenes. Meisenheim (repr. Chico, California)
Rehdantz, C. 1884. Demosthenes Neun philippische Reden: II.ii: Historischer und stilistischer Index; grammatischer und Lexikalischer Index. Leipzig
Ronnet, Gilberte. 1951. Étude sur le style de Démosthène dans les discours politiques. Paris,: E. de Boccard.
Wooten, Cecil. "Abruptness in Demetrius, Longinus, and Demosthenes." AJP 112: 493-505.
---. 1977. "A Few Observations on Form and content in Demosthenes." Phoenix 31: 258-261.
---. 1989. "Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Hermogenes on the style of Demosthenes." 110: 576-588.
---. 1997. "Cicero and Quintilian on the style of Demosthenes." Rhetorica 15: 177-192.
---. 1999. "A triple division in Demosthenes." CP 94: 450-454.

Other Orators

Carey, Christopher. 1989. Lysias: Selected speeches. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Stephen Usher. 1974. Dionysius of Halicarnassus: The critical essays. Loeb Classical Library (2 vols.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Dover, K. J. 1950. "The Chronology of Antiphon's Speeches." CQ 44: 44-60.
---. 1968. Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum. Berkeley
Edwards, M. 1999. Lysias, Five speeches : speeches 1, 12, 19, 22, 30. Bristol, Eng.: Bristol Classical Press.
Lavency, M. 1964. Aspects de la logographie judiciaire attique. Louvain
Rauchenstein, Robert. 1883. Ausgewählte Reden des Lysias. Berlin: Weidmann.
Sandys, J. E. 1868. Isocrates: Ad Demonicum et Panegyricus. London xerox in file (under Sandys).
Shuckburgh, Evelyn S. and Lysias. 1890. Lysiae Orationes XVI : with analysis, notes, appendices, & indices. London ; New York: Macmillan.
Usher, S. 1973. "The Style of Isocrates." BICS 20: 39-67.
---. 1990. Isocrates: Panegyricus and To Nicocles. Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips.
---. 1999. Greek Oratory: Tradition and Originality. Oxford .

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