Wisdom in Loose Form. The Language of Egyptian and Greek Proverbs in Collections of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods

Wisdom in Loose Form......Page 4
ISBN: 978 90 04 16058 3......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 12
FOREWORD......Page 14
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS......Page 16
1. The Aims, Methodology, and Structure of the Study......Page 18
2. Survey of Scholarship......Page 22
1. The Material Collected for the Analysis......Page 35
2. Description of the Corpus: The Egyptian Collections......Page 37
3. The Greek Collections......Page 45
4. The Collections and their Egyptian and Greek Literary Milieu......Page 53
1. The Status of Demotic and Greek in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods......Page 60
2. Interaction between Demotic and Greek......Page 61
3. The Form of Demotic and Greek......Page 64
4. Demotic and Greek Grammar and Syntax......Page 65
5. Tense in Demotic and Greek Proverbs......Page 80
6. The Classification of Demotic and Greek Proverbs......Page 82
2. Demotic Monopartite Proverbs......Page 86
2.2. Adverbials in Demotic Monopartite Proverbs......Page 95
2.3. Anticipation in Demotic Monopartite Proverbs......Page 100
2.4. Other Emphatic Devices in Demotic Monopartite Proverbs......Page 103
3. Greek Monopartite Proverbs......Page 104
3.1. Questions as Greek Monopartite Proverbs......Page 121
3.2. Adverbials in Greek Monopartite Proverbs......Page 122
3.3. Participles in Greek Monopartite Proverbs......Page 126
3.4. Anticipation in Greek Monopartite Proverbs......Page 127
3.5. Other Emphatic Devices in Greek Monopartite Proverbs......Page 129
3.6. Connecting Words in Greek Monopartite Proverbs......Page 130
4. Comparison of Demotic and Greek Monopartite Proverbswith Regard to their Structure, Grammar, and Syntax......Page 132
1. Bipartite Proverbs in Demotic and Greek: Introductory Remarks......Page 137
2.1. Coordination in Demotic Bipartite Proverbs......Page 138
2.2. Subordination in Demotic Bipartite Proverbs......Page 144
3.1. Coordination in Greek Bipartite Proverbs......Page 151
3.2. Subordination in Greek Bipartite Proverbs......Page 164
4. Multipartite Proverbs in Demotic and Greek: Introductory Remarks......Page 171
5. Demotic Multipartite Proverbs......Page 172
6.1. Adverbials in Demotic Bipartite and Multipartite Proverbs......Page 174
6.2. Anticipation in Demotic Bipartite and Multipartite Proverbs......Page 176
6.4. Connecting Words in Demotic Bipartite and Multipartite Proverbs......Page 177
7. Greek Multipartite Proverbs......Page 178
8.1. Questions as Greek Bipartite and Multipartite Proverbs......Page 182
8.2. Adverbials in Greek Bipartite and Multipartite Proverbs......Page 183
8.3. Participles in Greek Bipartite and Multipartite Proverbs......Page 184
8.5. Other Emphatic Devices in Greek Bipartite and Multipartite Proverbs......Page 185
8.6. Connecting Words in Greek Bipartite and Multipartite Proverbs......Page 187
9. Comparison between Demotic and Greek Bipartite and MultipartiteProverbs with Regard to their Structure, Syntax, and Grammar......Page 191
10. General Observations onStructural Patterns in Demotic and Greek Proverbs......Page 194
2. The Question of Versification in Demotic and Greek Proverbs......Page 200
3. The Imagery of Demotic and Greek Proverbs: Metaphors, Similes, and Personification......Page 204
4. The Tone of Demotic and Greek Proverbs......Page 208
5. Figures of Speech in Demotic and Greek Proverbs......Page 215
6. The Vocabulary of Demotic and Greek Proverbs......Page 218
7. How do Demotic and Greek Proverbs Work?......Page 220
8. Semantic Parallels in Demotic and Greek Proverbs......Page 225
9. Types of Theme in Demotic and Greek Proverbs......Page 230
10. Thematic Similarities and Differences between Demotic and Greek Proverbs and their Cultural Interpretation......Page 232
11. Comparison of Demotic and Greek Proverbs with Regard to their Versification, Use of Stylistic Devices, Tone, Vocabulary, Meaning, Semantic Parallels, and Thematic Typology......Page 235
1. Introductory Remarks......Page 239
2. The Authorship of Demotic and Greek Proverbs......Page 240
3. The Audience of Demotic and Greek Proverbs......Page 244
4. The Purpose of Demotic and Greek Proverbs......Page 246
5. The Organization of Demotic and Greek Proverbs in Collections......Page 247
6. Comparison of Demotic and Greek Proverbs with Regard to the Authorship, Audience, Purpose, and Organization in their Collections......Page 253
VIII. SUMMARY OF SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EGYPTIAN AND GREEK PROVERBS AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 255
APPENDIX A: LIST OF PROVERBS OMITTED FROM THE ANALYSIS......Page 262
APPENDIX B: LIST OF STRUCTURAL MODELSWITH FURTHER EXAMPLES......Page 263
APPENDIX C: EXAMPLES OF SEMANTIC PARALLELS......Page 266
APPENDIX D: FURTHER EXAMPLES OF THEMES......Page 267
Egyptian proverbs......Page 268
Greek proverbs......Page 281
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 304
GENERAL INDEX......Page 324
SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE......Page 336