Titolo completo (Inglese)
SEGNO E TESTO
Sottotitolo
International journal of manuscripts and text transmission
Editore
FONDAZIONE CENTRO ITALIANO DI STUDI SULL'ALTO MEDIOEVO (CISAM)
ISSN
2037-0245 (Rivista Stampata)
2037-0245 (Rivista Online)
Numero del volume
14
Numero del fascicolo
1
Data del fascicolo
2016
Titolo completo (Inglese)
Language and Style in Antonius Diogenes’ The Wonders Beyond Thule
Di (autore)
Numero di Pagine
34
Prima Pagina
39
Ultima Pagina
73
Lingua del testo
Inglese
Data di publicazione
2016
Copyright
2016 FONDAZIONE CENTRO ITALIANO DI STUDI SULL'ALTO MEDIOEVO (CISAM)
Descrizione principale (Inglese)
The present paper deals with language and style in Antonius Diogenes’ The Wonders Beyond Thule. After selecting the fragments of direct tradition that can be attributed to the Ἄπιcτα with a reasonable degree of certainty and the fragments of indirect tradition that can be considered literal quotations from this work, the article analyses them by focusing on a series of features (phonetics, morphology, word-order, structure of periods, temporal consistency, coordination, ellipses, vocabulary). The results of this analysis are compared with Photius’ remarks on Antonius Diogenes’ language and style and with the evidence provided by the surviving papyri on the audience of the novel.