Concessive Participles and Epitactic Constructions in Ancient Greek

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explain the construction of concessive participles introduced by kai tauta in Ancient Greek as an instance of epitaxis, a specific type of coordination. This construction will be differentiated from the concessive participles introduced by adverbial kai , the usual construction, by its syntactic configuration and pragmatics. The data is drawn from the works of Xenophon of Athens (c. 430–354  BC ).