KeriaPub Date : 2021-08-24DOI: 10.4312/keria.23.1.5-18
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak, Jerneja Kavčič
{"title":"Rodilniške oblike na -erum in -us v arhaični latinščini","authors":"Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak, Jerneja Kavčič","doi":"10.4312/keria.23.1.5-18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/keria.23.1.5-18","url":null,"abstract":"V članku skušam pojasniti nekatere nepravilne tvorbe rodilnika ednine in množine v arhaični latinščini. V nasprotju s prevladujočim mnenjem predlagam razlago, po kateri oblike na *-us, ki se najdejo v vlogi omenjenih sklonov, nadaljujejo stari rodilnik dvojine na -ūs (< *-ous). Slednji je ohranjen v stalnih frazah, pa tudi v besedilih religiozne in pravne narave; primer je pro aede Castorus (CIL I2 582) »pred svetiščem Kastorjev«. Tudi za nepravilni rodilnik množine kot boverum »volov« (Cato, Agr. 62; Varro, Ling. 8.74) predlagam podobno razlago, in sicer da izhaja iz umikajočih se dvojinskih oblik, pri čemer je novi rodilnik množine na -ērum nastal z dodajanjem množinske končnice na starinsko obliko imenovalnika in tožilnika dvojine; prim. *bovē im./tož. dv. »vola«, rod. mn. bovērum »volov« (prvotno »dveh volov«).","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49099203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2021-08-24DOI: 10.4312/keria.23.1.155-175
Marko Marinčič
{"title":"Latinska res publica litterarum pod avspiciji božanskega Homerja","authors":"Marko Marinčič","doi":"10.4312/keria.23.1.155-175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/keria.23.1.155-175","url":null,"abstract":"Enij je v uvodnem prizoru svojih Analov opisal sanjsko vizijo, v kareri ga je Homer proglasil za svojo reinkarnacijo. Ker je pesnitev verzificirana rimska zgodovina, je simbolno sporočilo Enijeve pretenciozne domislice očitno povezano z imperialistično politiko rimske države v Sredozemlju v prvi polovici 2. stoletja pr. Kr. Enij je svojo literarno ambicijo povezal z razvojem Rima v svetovno velesilo in latinščine v kulturno relevanten mednarodni jezik. Petrarka je po Eniju povzel topos Homerja kot duhovnega vodnika latinskih pesnikov, ki si lastijo »imperialno« poslanstvo, in upodobil Enija kot literarni lik, ki si na prizorišču vojne zoper Hanibala izmisli svoje srečanje s Homerjem; ta mu prerokuje Petrarkovo Afriko in novo ero latinske literature. Članek opredeli Petrarkov prispevek k reinvenciji latinske zgodovinske epike kot glasnice političnega in literarnega imperializma, nato pa se posveti dvema zanimivima točkama v poznejši usodi toposa: Andreasu Divusu, avtorju prvega tiskanega prevoda homerskih pesnitev, in Ezri Poundu, ki je v Divusu prepoznal enega od praočetov pesniškega modernizma ante litteram.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48102638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2021-08-24DOI: 10.4312/keria.23.1.179-210
Gaius Julius Caesar, Yoshinaka Jošt Gerl
{"title":"Gaj Julij Cezar","authors":"Gaius Julius Caesar, Yoshinaka Jošt Gerl","doi":"10.4312/keria.23.1.179-210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/keria.23.1.179-210","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41954680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2021-08-24DOI: 10.4312/keria.23.1.97-136
Ana Bembič
{"title":"Podoba Julijana Odpadnika v zgodovinopisju Amijana Marcelina","authors":"Ana Bembič","doi":"10.4312/keria.23.1.97-136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/keria.23.1.97-136","url":null,"abstract":"Julijan Odpadnik je bil rimski cesar, ki je v četrtem stoletju, ko se je krščanstvo pod Konstantinom že uveljavilo, skušal preobrniti zgodovino nazaj v čas poganstva. Njegova vladavina je bila kratka in nepričakovana, zanjo pa so bile značilne verske reforme in vojaški pohod nad Perzijo. Krščanski pisci ga prikazujejo negativno, za poganskega zgodovinopisca Amijana Marcelina pa je predstavljal podobo idealnega vladarja. V svojem zgodovinopisnem delu Res gestae je Julijana prikazal kot izbranca bogov. Kljub občudovanju mu ni prizanesel s kritiko, je pa načrtno zmanjševal pomen verskih in drugih zadev, ki bi lahko škodovale njegovi podobi. Da bi mu povečal veljavo, ga je primerjal z mnogimi slavnimi osebami iz grške in rimske preteklosti, prejšnjega cesarja Konstancija in Julijanovega brata Gala pa je prikazal izrazito negativno. Kljub naklonjenosti bogov pa je Julijan na pohodu proti Perziji zavrnil vsa svarilna znamenja, kar ga je stalo življenja. Njegovo smrt Amijan vzporeja s Sokratovo smrtjo in ga s tem prikaže kot vladarja filozofa, kar se ujema z Julijanovim lastnim idealom.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49332514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2020-12-28DOI: 10.4312/KERIA.22.2.7-23
G. Horrocks
{"title":"What’s in the Middle?","authors":"G. Horrocks","doi":"10.4312/KERIA.22.2.7-23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/KERIA.22.2.7-23","url":null,"abstract":"It has long been taken for granted in reference works, grammars and elementary introductions that Ancient Greek had three grammatical voices, active, passive and middle. Yet scholars have always had great difficulty in characterising the middle voice in a straightforward and convincing way, and language learners are often perplexed to find that most of the middles they find in texts fail to exemplify the function, usually involving some notion of self interest, that is typically ascribed to this voice. This article therefore re-examines the Ancient Greek middle, both through the lens of a general survey of “middle voice” functions across languages, and through the analysis of all the medio-passive verb forms attested in Book 1 of Plato’s Republic. \u0000The principal observations are that Ancient Greek middles do not represent a regular pattern of usage either from a typological point of view or as employed specifically in Republic 1 (the database is in fact partly extended to other works). Accordingly, the main conclusion is that the Ancient Greek middle is not a grammatical voice sensu stricto, i.e. a regular syntactic alternation applying to all verbs with a given set of properties and expressed by a regular morphological form with a predictable semantic function. Rather, it appears to be a convenient collective name for a large set of “autonomous” verb forms that are either clearly deponent (i.e., have no active counterparts) or that have been lexicalised in a specialised meaning vis-à-vis their supposed active counterparts (i.e., are also deponents in practice, despite appearances). In all probability, therefore, medio-passive morphology, whatever it once represented in terms of function, was recharacterised prehistorically as “passive” morphology, leaving a residue of verbs exhibiting forms with non-passive functions. Presumably, these survived as “middles” only because they had no active counterparts or had been assigned innovative meanings that distinguished them from any formally related actives.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42540671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2020-12-28DOI: 10.4312/KERIA.22.2.119-139
Jerneja Kavčič, B. Joseph, Chris R. Brown
{"title":"Teaching Modern Greek to Classicists","authors":"Jerneja Kavčič, B. Joseph, Chris R. Brown","doi":"10.4312/KERIA.22.2.119-139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/KERIA.22.2.119-139","url":null,"abstract":"The ideology of decline is a part of the history of the study and characterization of the Greek language from the Hellenistic period and the Roman Atticist movement right up to the emergence of katharevousa in the 19th century and the resulting modern diglossia. It is also clear, however, that there is an overwhelming presence of Ancient Greek vocabulary and forms in the modern language. Our position is that the recognition of such phenomena can provide a tool for introducing classicists to the modern language, a view that has various intellectual predecessors (e.g., Albert Thumb, Nicholas Bachtin, George Thomson, and Robert Browning). We thus propose a model for the teaching of Modern Greek to classicists that starts with words that we refer to as carry-overs. These are words that can be used in the modern language without requiring any explanation of pronunciation rules concerning Modern Greek spelling or of differences in meaning in comparison to their ancient predecessors (e.g., κακός ‘bad’, μικρός ‘small’, νέος ‘new’, μέλι ‘honey’, πίνετε ‘you drink’). Our data show that a beginners’ textbook of Ancient Greek may contain as many as a few hundred carry-over words, their exact number depending on the variety of the Erasmian pronunciation that is adopted in the teaching practice. However, the teaching of Modern Greek to classicists should also take into account lexical phenomena such as Ancient-Modern Greek false friends, as well as Modern Greek words that correspond to their ancient Greek predecessors only in terms of their written forms and meanings.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48744164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2020-12-28DOI: 10.4312/KERIA.22.2.25-55
M. Janse
{"title":"Sex and Agreement","authors":"M. Janse","doi":"10.4312/KERIA.22.2.25-55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/KERIA.22.2.25-55","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is about the relation between natural and grammatical gender in Greek and the ways in which the twain are matched or mismatched. A variety of topics is discussed, including the relation between grammatical gender and declension, the resolution of gender clashes in epicene nouns and the marking of natural gender in common nouns. Particular attention is given to the gendering of neuter diminutives with male or female referents. Age and particular aspects of “maleness” or “femaleness” are shown to be major determinants in triggering male or female instead of neuter agreement patterns, especially on anaphoric pronouns, but occasionally also on other word classes such as predicative adjectives and participles.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45229454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2020-12-28DOI: 10.4312/KERIA.22.2.85-117
M. Hriberšek
{"title":"Dominik Penn, Lexicographer at the Intersection of Slovenian and Greek","authors":"M. Hriberšek","doi":"10.4312/KERIA.22.2.85-117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/KERIA.22.2.85-117","url":null,"abstract":"Although the Slovenian language is relatively small, Slovenian lexicography has quite a rich history and tradition reaching right back to the 16th century. Until the 19th century, writers who made dictionaries and collections of Slovenian vocabulary prepared a fair amount of admirable works, albeit many remained in manuscript and have never been printed. In the 19th century, the study of the Slovenian language, efforts to preserve it, and the collecting of Slovenian linguistic material spread outside the central Slovenian land of Carniola; in Styria in particular, young intellectuals from those parts, such as Leopold Volkmer (1741–1816), Janez Krstnik Leopold Šmigoc (1787–1829), Peter Dajnko (1787–1873), Anton Krempl (1790–1844), and others, provided for the collecting of linguistic material alongside their literary endeavours; one of them was Friar Minor Dominik Penn. He was a fascinating lexicographer who included Greek in his work in a very unusual way.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":"22 1","pages":"85-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49292666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2020-12-28DOI: 10.4312/keria.22.2.5-6
Jerneja Kavčič
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Jerneja Kavčič","doi":"10.4312/keria.22.2.5-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/keria.22.2.5-6","url":null,"abstract":"In May 2018, the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts hosted the first conference in the series A Glimpse into Greek Linguistics. Its purpose was to shed light on aspects of synchronic and diachronic research on Greek and to promote the study of this language in Slovenia. The second conference was included in the program of festival “On Mt. Olympus” — a nine-month series of cultural and research events dedicated to Ancient Greek ideas and technological achievements — and was one of the main events of the festival. A result of the efforts for the in-depth study of Greek in Slovenia is also the present international issue of the journal Keria: Studia Latina et Graeca, which contains contributions by six participants from the second conference.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45271108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2020-12-28DOI: 10.4312/KERIA.22.2.57-83
B. Joseph
{"title":"What is not so (E)strange about Greek as a Balkan Language","authors":"B. Joseph","doi":"10.4312/KERIA.22.2.57-83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/KERIA.22.2.57-83","url":null,"abstract":"Back in the early 1980s, I was trying to raise some research funds for a project I had in mind involving Modern Greek, and I was looking at a Social Science Research Council (SSRC) brochure about their area studies grant programs. I saw that they had a program for “Eastern European countries” and one for “Western European countries”. I thought I had better check out both programs to see where my grant application belonged because Greece historically is both east and west, and could reasonably be considered as belonging in one or the other group. However, in looking at the list of Eastern European countries, I saw expected ones like Yugoslavia (then still intact), Albania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and others, and in the list of Western European countries, there was France, Germany, Italy, and so on, but I could not find Greece on either list. Just to be sure, I telephoned1 SSRC to inquire into the status of Greece from their perspective and was told that I was indeed reading the brochure right, and that Greek and Greece were no place, so to speak, neither east nor west. But of course we know where Greece is: it is planted firmly in the Balkan peninsula that occupies most of what can be called “Southeastern Europe” and geographically speaking, it is to the east of “eastern” countries like Albania or the Czech Republic or Slovakia, and to the west of truly eastern countries like Russia. My SSRC experience is emblematic of an attitude about Greece and about Greek that pervades much of the way Greece and the Greek language are treated in the scholarly world, that is, they are seen as neither east nor west, located","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":"22 1","pages":"57-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41556247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}