SINOPSIS DEL LIBRO

This book is a historical and comparative study of the language of Hipponax a Greek poet of invective verse who lived in Ephesus in the middle of the sixth century BCE Many factors invite the linguist to take a close look at the surviving fragments of his poetry including a creative use of language that is coarse parodic barbaric and sometimes delightfully obscene his distinctive meter and his relish for lexical rarities and foreign words borrowe...Seguir leyendo