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9.2 | 2019
Approches linguistiques d’Apollonios de Rhodes

Linguistic approaches of Apollonius Rhodius
Approcci linguistici di Apollonio Rodio
Edited by Christrophe Cusset, Isabelle Boehm and Emmanuelle Morel

If the Alexandrian literature knew a revival of interest for a few decades, the attention which one paid to the language used by the Alexandrian poets remains still very weak, perhaps because one considers above all that it is a completely artificial language. This applies in particular to Apollonius: the epic poem of the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes, and its Homeric inspiration, have been widely studied in literary and poetic terms, but much less studied in strictly linguistic terms. This issue of the Aitia-journal collects the proceedings of an unprecedented workshop on the language of Apollonius of Rhodes. Questions of pragmatics, morphology and semantics are addressed here: verbal derivation, nominal prefixing, suffixation and gradation in the nominal creation, modality and temporality, anthroponymy and theonymy, and other specifically poetic phenomena such as tmesis. If the Homeric heritage is of course at the heart of these investigations, it is probably also time to consider other dimensions of the literary language of Apollonius, such as the influence of the tragedy.

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