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Egbert J. Bakker is Professor of Classics at Yale University. Among his interests are the pragmatics of Ancient Greek and the linguistic articulation of Greek narratives. He is the author of Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (1997) and Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Poetics in Homeric Poetics (2005). He has (co-)edited Written Voices, Spoken Signs (1997), Grammar as Interpretation (1997), and Brill's Companion to Herodotus (2002). Victor Bers is Professor of Classics at Yale University. His publications include Greek Poetic Syntax in the Classical Age (1984), Speech in Speech (1997), Genos Dikanikon (2009), and for the University of Texas Oratory of Classical Greece , a translation of Demosthenes, Speeches 50–9. Claude Brixhe is Professor emeritus at the University of Nancy 2 , France. Among his interests in the field of Greek linguistics are the study of Greek dialects (ancient and modern), the Greek Koine , the non-Greek languages of Asia Minor, and the history of the Greek alphabet. Among his principal publications are Le dialecte grec de Pamphylie. Documents et grammaire (1976), Phonétique et phonologie du grec ancien I. Quelques grandes questions (1996), and Corpus des inscriptions paléo-phrygiennes , (1984, with M. Lejeune). Michael Clarke is Professor of Classics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His publications ... log in or subscribe to read full text