Greek forms of address : from Herodotus to Lucian /

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 Herodotu...

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Main Author: Dickey, Eleanor (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Ancient Greek
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1996.
Series:Oxford classical monographs.
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Online Access:CONNECT