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Dumb Animals: A Short History of Classical Logocentrism
2021
Among the most common and influential stereotypes of Greco-Roman literature is the idea that animals are ‘dumb’ (ἄλογα/muta), that is, mute and devoid of reason. In recent years, several explorations of what Stephen Newmyer has aptly called the ‘man alone of animals’ topos have pointed out that in asserting the privileged status of humans the ancients attached special importance to articulate language. Yet, most of these explorations have adopted a thematic rather than historical approach in an attempt to provide a comparative assessment of ancient and modern paradigms. In the present paper, I follow a historical line through the literary representations of animals as ‘dumb’, focusing on tw…
La cronología de ιγα con subjuntivo en expresión de mandato : La lengua de Sófocles, Eurípides y Jenofonte
2008
Mikel.labiano@uv.es En este artículo el autor trata de señalar que la construcción de i{na más subjuntivo con valor de imperativo es anterior a la koiné. Asimismo trata de explicar su origen y sus fases a partir de un proceso de gramaticalización constatable, por ejemplo, en la lengua de Sófocles, Eurípides y Jenofonte. In this paper the author tries to point out that i{na with subjunctive as imperative is previous to koiné. Likewise he tries to explain its origin and phases starting from a grammaticalization process that is noticeable in the language of Sophocles, Euripides and Xenophon.