Greek Forms of Address: From Herodotus to Lucian (Oxford Classical Monographs) by Eleanor Dickey

Greek Forms of Address: From Herodotus to Lucian (Oxford Classical Monographs)

Eleanor Dickey

360 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced
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How did an Athenian citizen address his wife, his children, his dog? How did they address him? The only evidence we have is in the form of written texts, but how close are these to spoken ancient Greek? Based on a corpus of 11,891 vocatives from 2...

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