Reviews for Etymology and Grammatical Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

The average rating for Etymology and Grammatical Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-07-13 00:00:00 Khalif Williams 201215: read this years ago but just came up in memory when talking books, so decided to up the rating. i remember the arguments well. i have read a lot of sff, and recognise this as 'literature of hope'. i do not necessarily remember details but the trend towards 'modernism' is clear in the last century, resisted by work that are essentially stories, romances, fantasies, that appeal to general readers. language changes through this evolution from epic to intimate, but it is question this is somehow more 'real', for what some people want in books are fantastic/magical/science fiction reality...

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-14 00:00:00 Chris Bishop I was looking for a book that would tell me how Homer was received in the archaic and classical periods. It is because I have this paper on Thucydides right now and I wanted to situate how Thucydides uses/sees/understands Homer in the context of other prior/(near)contemporary uses/visions/understandings. There was some frustration. It took me some time to find what I was looking for. I have no idea why. But anyways, here, I found it. This is a great work for anyone interested in classical reception in general. I'll let Barbara sum up the task of her book: "In this book, I have focused on how the ancient Greeks imagined Homer and have deliberately failed to discuss whether their representations were true to the 'real' poet(s) of the Iliad (and the Odyssey). Instead, I have suggested that ancient depictions of Homer can be history for us in that they express how ancient audiences received the Homeric poems." (p.236)