Now you saw it, now you didn't: the perception and reception of word order in ancient Greek and Latin texts
Not many of us ever get to see an actual papyrus roll, codex, or manuscript of a Greek or Latin literary text, though increasingly we are able to see digital copies of them online. The differences of format between any of the above and the texts we are accustomed to seeing are striking. This article...
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| description | Not many of us ever get to see an actual papyrus roll, codex, or manuscript of a Greek or Latin literary text, though increasingly we are able to see digital copies of them online. The differences of format between any of the above and the texts we are accustomed to seeing are striking. This article is concerned with the effect that the format of a text had on the reception, written or aural, of word order as a literary device in the ancient world. We pay great attention to word order, but our reception of it is based on the format of the modern text, not on the format of the text as it was experienced in the ancient world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-df0db7832d2f4d628c44152ec5eb84182024-02-26T08:25:17ZengCambridge University PressThe Journal of Classics Teaching2058-63101410.1017/S2058631024000254Now you saw it, now you didn't: the perception and reception of word order in ancient Greek and Latin textsJerome Moran0Independent scholar, UKNot many of us ever get to see an actual papyrus roll, codex, or manuscript of a Greek or Latin literary text, though increasingly we are able to see digital copies of them online. The differences of format between any of the above and the texts we are accustomed to seeing are striking. This article is concerned with the effect that the format of a text had on the reception, written or aural, of word order as a literary device in the ancient world. We pay great attention to word order, but our reception of it is based on the format of the modern text, not on the format of the text as it was experienced in the ancient world.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058631024000254/type/journal_articleword orderreading/listeningroll/codex/booktext formattext formatting |
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| title | Now you saw it, now you didn't: the perception and reception of word order in ancient Greek and Latin texts |
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| title_short | Now you saw it, now you didn't: the perception and reception of word order in ancient Greek and Latin texts |
| title_sort | now you saw it now you didn t the perception and reception of word order in ancient greek and latin texts |
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