Synopses & Reviews
Exploration of the development of prepositions marking the agents of passive verbs in Ancient Greek.
About the Author
Coulter H. George is currently a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has previously taught at Rice University.
Table of Contents
1. Passive verbs and agent constructions; 2. Agent constructions in Homer; 3. Agent constructions with perfect passive verbs; 4. Agent constructions with prepositons other than ???: prose; 5. Agent constructions with prepositions other than ???: tragedy and comedy; The decline of ??? in agent constructions; Summary.