
The Greek Particles
Bristol Classical Press
2nd Edition
Published on 1. January 1998
Book
Hardback
742 pages
978-1-85399-518-7 (ISBN)
Description
This revised edition incorporates additional examples from the original author in conjunction with K.J. Dover's own material. In presenting the first (1934) edition, Denniston set himself to cut down the etymological discussion which characterised his German predecessors in the field. He was concerned to illustrate how particles work and how they nuance Greek language within the corpus of surviving work. His primary aim was "literary, not grammatical or etymological". With this in mind he regarded exemplification as the key, citing much more than his predecessors in the belief that "the reader should be enabled to bathe in examples". When Denniston died (1949) he left copious notes - additional examples, changes of mind in the light of fresh material; these were incorporated by K.J. Dover in the second edition (1950) with new material of his own and the addition of indexes.
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Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 44 mm
Weight
1226 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85399-518-7 (9781853995187)
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Persons
J.D. Denniston was Fellow of Hertford College, University of Oxford, UK, author of The Greek Particles and editor of Cicero: Philippics I and II (both published by Bloomsbury). Sir Kenneth Dover was Professor Emeritus of Greek at the University of St Andrews and President of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK. Among his many publications are Greek Homosexuality (reissued with forewords,
Bloomsbury, 2016).
Bloomsbury, 2016).