The Rhythmical Structure of Iambic Trimeter in Ancient Greek Comedy
The Rhythmical Structure of Iambic Trimeter in Ancient Greek Comedy

Summary/Abstract: In studies of ancient metrics, the analysis of frequencies was used already in the 19th century — at a time when mathematical means did not play a significant role in literary studies and there were no consistent methods for the statistical analysis of poetical rhythm (let us remember that the latter followed the example of these first attempts, cf Belyi 1910). Naturally, research was mainly concerned with hexameter as the most important ancient verse metre, but some analyses of iambic metres have been conducted as well, above all the dialogue verse of tragedy (cf e.g. Korzeniewski 1989).[...]

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