Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Accounting for word order variation in Greek
3: Tragic ways of dying: word order in the clause
4: Word order in the noun phrase
5: Enter dialogue: questions in Sophocles and Euripides
6: Back to the trimeter
7: Back to the text: four readings in Sophocles' Electra
8: Conclusion: reading word order, slowly

About the Author

Helma Dik is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago.

Reviews

a valuable book D. M. Goldstein, Brwn Mawr Classical Review