Abstract
The aim of this program is to expand and strengthen a recent and internationally recognized development in Dutch classical scholarship, which consists of an innovative synthesis of modern linguistic and literary approaches. By means of an empirical corpus study, discourse linguistic and narratological methods and concepts will be brought together in order to draw the outlines of an interdisciplinary framework for the interpretation of classical literary texts. The texts of the corpus are all taken from Ancient Greek and Latin war narrative, a type of text which is at the core of classical culture. The combined discourse-linguistic/narratological perspective will enable to lay bare more clearly the underlying rhetoric and ideology of these texts, and to open up the way to a new kind of (comparative) stylistic research.