Colloquial Expressions in Greek Tragedy: Revised and enlarged edition of P.T. Stevens's "Colloquial Expressions in Euripides"

CONTENTS
FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION I
INTRODUCTION II
	A.1 Stevens’s definitions of the colloquial and methodology of presenting expressions in CEE maintained in this revised edition.
	A.2 and 3 The identification of colloquialisms until CEE.
	B Stevens’s progressive refinement of his definitions.
	C.1 Other scholars’ definitions and discussions subsequent to CEE.
	C.2 Some particular aspects: satyric drama; vulgarisms; diminutives; direct speech ‘within’ speech; particles; proverbs and the like; colloquialisms in Latin.
	D.1 and .2 State of the discussion; range of comparative evidence adduced by scholars.
	D.3 The tragedians’ use of colloquialisms: (1) ‘clustering’ in context; (2) a means of characterization?
	D.4 Summary appraisal of Sections D.1–3 above; consequences for this revised edition
	E Broad differences between the three tragedians.
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS
	PART I
		A. Exaggeration: emphasis
		B. Pleonastic or lengthened forms of expression
		C. Understatement: irony
		D. Brevity: ellipse
		E. Interjections and expressions used to attract attention or maintain contact
		F. Particles
		G. Metaphorical expressions
		H. Miscellaneous
		I. Colloquial forms and syntax
	PART II
		A. Exaggeration; emphasis
		C. Understatement; irony
		D. Brevity; ellipse
		E. Interjections and expressions used to attract mention or maintain contact
		F. Particles
		G. Metaphorical expressions
		H. Miscellaneous
		I. Colloquial forms and syntax
	APPENDIX TO PART II
		A. Exaggeration: emphasis
		B. Pleonastic or lengthened forms of expression
		C. Understatement; irony
		E. Interjections and expressions used to attract attention or maintain contact
		G. Metaphorical Expressions
		H. Miscellaneous
		I. Syntax
ADDITIONAL NOTES AND CHAPTERS
	1. TWO NOTES, ON VOCABULARY AND METAPHOR SOMETIMES ATTRIBUTED TO COLLOQUIAL LANGUAGE
	2. DISTRIBUTION AND DRAMATIC SIGNIFICANCE OF COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS
	3. STYLISTIC AND DRAMATIC SIGNIFICANCE OF COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS: SPOKEN DIALOGUE ONLY
		Α. Clusters of expressions – and infrequencies, even absences, of expressions – in Euripides and Sophocles
		B. Characterization by means of colloquial expressions?
		B.1 Mortals: ordinary or subservient persons
		B.2 Gods
BIBLIOGRAPHY
	A Note on A. López Eire’s La lengua coloquial de la comedia aristofanica (Universidad de Murcia 1996)
	An Orientation, for both Greek and Latin drama
AFTERWORD
INDEXES
	1 (a). Greek words and expressions
	1 (b). Linguistic phenomena or usages; syntax
	2 OTHER GREEK WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS; LATIN WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS
	3. GENERAL; ASPECTS AND ISSUES; (SELECTED) SCHOLARS’ NAMES
	4. INDICES LOCORUM
		4 (a). Locations in Tragedy of colloquial expressions and usages in Parts I and II
		4 (b). Other places in Tragedy (selected)
		4 (c). Other references (selected)