9783934106024KurztextThis book is a historical and comparative study of the language of Hipponax, a Greek poet of invective verse who lived in Ephesus in the middle of the sixth century BCE. Many factors invite the linguist to take a close look at the surviving fragments of his poetry, including a creative use of language that is coarse, parodic, barbaric, and sometimes delightfully obscene, his distinctive meter, and his relish for lexical rarities and foreign words borrowed from neighboring languages.
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