Anna Bonifazi

Announcements

Online Repository of Particle Studies

We are excited to announce the release of the Online Repository of Particle Studies (ORPS): Scholarship on twelve particles and their combinations from the 16th century to present. The Online Repository of Particle Studies is a searchable, sortable database designed to showcase the wealth of previous particle studies. An important tool for researchers, it includes information from the fourteen monographs on Greek particles that appeared between 1588 and 1993, as… Read more

Announcements

Forthcoming Publication | Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming online publication of Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse: Five Volumes Exploring Particle Use Across Genres, a born-digital publication from the Hellenic Studies Series co-authored by Anna Bonifazi, Annemieke Drummen, and Mark de Kreij. This comprehensive work analyzes particle usage across five genres of ancient Greek discourse—epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, and historiography—with the aim of exploring communicative strategies, cognitive processes, and the interactional dynamics of… Read more

Ancient Greek language,  Video

Finding Beauty in the Smallest Words: Anna Bonifazi on Ancient Greek Particles

We are pleased to share the following video conversation with Dr. Anna Bonifazi (Universität Heidelberg) who directs a collaborative project on particle use across genres in ancient Greek literature. In a forthcoming monograph and digital publication, Bonifazi and her team show that the systematic study of particles and particle clusters offers valuable information about performance and narrative organization. Every student and teacher of ancient Greek literature will be interested in their findings. This discussion… Read more

Topic for Discussion

Under discussion: “That Man!”

~ A guest post by Janet Ozsolak ~ The active interaction among the bard, internal audience and the external audience in a Homeric performance intrigued me since Version 1 of the HeroesX project. I wondered how the external audience, in the 5th century BCE, processed such a complicated narrative (Homeric Iliad and Odyssey). How did they kept them near and dear to their song culture? How did they connect the… Read more