What's in a Name?

The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature

AvJoan Booth,Robert Maltby

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. Here, in eleven new essays, an eminent international cast explore themes which include 'speaking' names, often involving bilingual Latin/Greek play; the ways in which persons and objects are named in contexts of invective or endearment; the significant suppression or changing of names; the religious and historical significances of names; the uses of names in literary catalogues; names as devices to structure a group of shorter poems.

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Utgivningsdatum:2007-03-12
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:489 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Roman World
Antal sidor:196
Förlag:Classical Press of Wales
ISBN:9781905125098

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Innehållsförteckning

The Qualification of Personal Names by Possessive Adjectives in Cicero's Letters (Frederique Biville); Naming Names - or Not. Some Significant Choices and Suppressions in Latin Poetry (Joan Booth); The Nomenclature of the Tiber in Virgil's Aeneid (Francis Cairns); Onomato-poetics. A Linear Reading of Martial 7.67-70 (Niklas Holzberg); From the Metamorphoses to the Fasti: Catalogues of Proper Names in Ovid's Fasti (Stratis Kyriakidis); Proper Names as Linking Device in Martial 5.43-48 (Robert Maltby); Naming the Characters: the Cases of Aristomenes, Socrates and Meroe in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 1.2-19 (Andreas Michalopoulos); Antonomasia and Metonymy in the Proem to Virgil's Georgics (Helen Peraki-Kyriakidou); Tibullus' Nemesis: Divine Retribution and the Poet (Emma Stafford); Personal Names and Invective in Cicero (Javier Uria); Bilingual Word-play on Personal Names in Martial (Daniel Vallat).