On the Role of Accent in Ancient Greek Poetry: Pitch Patterns in the Homeric Hexameter
This paper attempts to prove that Ancient Greek tonal accent had a role in the composition of poetry, in particular of Homeric poetry. In order to do this, after a methodological discussion on how to show that accent was indeed taken into account when composing, the author conducts several tests reg...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Recursos: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/110672 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/110672 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | GREEK POETRY ACCENT HEXAMETER HOMER https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.2 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6 |
| Resumo: | This paper attempts to prove that Ancient Greek tonal accent had a role in the composition of poetry, in particular of Homeric poetry. In order to do this, after a methodological discussion on how to show that accent was indeed taken into account when composing, the author conducts several tests regarding trochaic ending words in the hexameter. |
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