What's in a Name?
The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature
Published on 12. March 2007
Book
Hardback
196 pages
978-1-905125-09-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Swansea
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
489 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905125-09-8 (9781905125098)
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Joan Booth | Robert Maltby
What's in a Name?
The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature
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12/2006
Classical Press of Wales
€98.49
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edited by Joan Booth and Robert Maltby
Content
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).