Lampas - Volume 57, Issue 1, 2024

Abstract This article discusses several problematic aspects of the simile of the Cave in Plato’s Republic: its relation to the two preceding similes of the Sun and the Line, plus a number of issues within the simile of the Cave itself.

Abstract This article presents a short introduction to the interpretation of Greek discourse particles, followed by an analysis of particle usage in several passages in Plato (taken mostly from the reading list for the Dutch secondary school final exams of 2023).

Abstract When reading Greek texts at school, pupils are confronted with long sentences and a variable word order. In this article I argue that we can help our pupils by presenting the text in a different layout, divided into cola, short meaningful sections of text. Ancient grammarians, both Greek and Latin, already used this concept in discussing texts, but they hardly gave any criteria to determine where one colon ends and Read More

Abstract Reading Livy’s long periods is often seen as a daunting task by students (and their teachers). Commonly, an analytical approach is used in the classroom, starting with the syntactical core of the sentence – which may, however, violate the order in which the author chose to present his material. This article presents an alternative by analysing two passages of Livy’s third decade according to the positional reading metho Read More

Abstract This article takes the brief paragraph on Livy’s style in the syllabus Central Examination Latin Language and Culture 2024 as a starting point for a discussion of Livy’s art of writing which is based on linguistic and narratological analysis. The first part discusses a combined linguistic-narratological tool that can help in a better understanding of the style and composition of Greek and Latin narrative texts at the meso a Read More