- Title
- Plutarch and the Novel: Register Change and Embedded Narrative in the De Genio Socratis and in Achilles Tatius
- Creator
- Tarrant, Harold
- Relation
- Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire p. 100-123
- Relation
- Pierides 8
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Human beings do not have only one way of speaking. According to the requirements of the situation our voices are required to operate in different registers. 1 And so too it was in ancient Greece, both preliterate and literate. Careful readers of ancient Greek will be sensitive to some of the changes, though because these changes belonged to their original culture it is not easy for scholars today to speak with authority about register changes in Greek literature. Awareness of genre does not always bring with it an awareness of the internal variations produced by register-changes. Fortunately, appropriate stylistic tests can reinforce our awareness of these changes, and when working in the service of trained Hellenists computers may detect changes of register just as well as changes of authorship and date. 2 It is gratifying to find that such changes in the diction of Plato were often noted in late antiquity by Proclus and others.
- Subject
- ancient greece; humans; greek literature; stylistic tests
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1460356
- Identifier
- uon:45941
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781527538115
- Language
- eng
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