Review

"A learned, serious and important book...completely original...it contains the answer to many questions which classicists and linguists constantly ask and to which the existing handbooks of metrics and prosody give only tentative answers."--Henry Hoenigswald, University of Pennsylvania, Emeritus

"Very well written. A very important book. It displays an incredible breadth of knowledge and understanding."--Sheila Embleton, York University

"I enjoyed reading this book more than almost any other in Linguistics or the Classics in the past several years, and it is a spectacular piece of scholarship. [It] should be read by every Classicist even remotely concerned with Ancient Greek as the living entity it once was....The efforts that have culminated in this volume provide a nearly bottomless source of real advances and ideas that should spawn years of fruitful research."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review

About the Author

A. M. Devine is at Stanford University. Laurence D. Stephens is at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.