Antonius Rhetor On Versification

Author : Martin Sprengling
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428947682
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Antonius Rhetor on Versification written by Martin Sprengling and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Antonius Rhetor on Versification: A Dissertation The greatest improbability of all, as Grimme (zdmg, XLVII, 278) has pointed out, lies in the further assumption that in strophes com posed of dissimilar verses all must. Be read after the manner estab lished by the first verse. A name, which is scarcely ever, or rather never, mentioned in such a survey as this, is that Of K. Schlottmann. The reason for this is twofold. First and foremost, his work is hidden away in the older volumes of the zdmg (xxxii, 187 - 97 and 767 f.; XXXIII, 252 - 91, more especially 279 - 84) under the title Zur semitischen Epigraphik, with the subtitle in Vol. XXXIII, Nebst Unter suchungen uber die verschiedenen Grundprinzipien der Metrik im Arabischen, Hebraischen und Aramaischen. Secondly, the great, but rather embittered De Lagarde overspread it with scathing criticism, which was meant to annihilate, but which, as is now per fectly clear, in this as in other cases, went beyond De Lagarde's evidence. In spite of this, Schlottmann's work stands forth today as one Of the most Significant expositions (in the writer's Opinion the best to date) of the fundamental principles of Aramaic and in par ticular of Syriac prosody. Assuming as proved (as well he might) the counting of syllables with disregard of their quantity and extensive use of parallelismus membrorum, he makes the observation that under the circumstances, even with the aid Of music, the use of the accent was indispensable to the production of a rhythmic movement. Touching briefly upon similar phenomena in byzantine-greek and Bactrian poetry, he enters more extensively upon a comparison of Aramaic with French prosody. Neither the French nor the Syriac lays nearly as much stress upon accent as do the Germanic peoples. Both French and Syriac count syllables. Both French and Syriac are largely, if not wholly, limited to quasi - iambic and trochaic rhythms and experience serious, if not insurmountable, difficulties in the creation of anapaests and dactyls. French (and Syriac. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.