What's in a Name?
The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature
What's in a Name?
The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature
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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.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Robert Maltby
1. The Qualification of Personal Names by Possessive Adjectives in Cicero's letters - Frédérique Biville
2. Personal Names and Invective in Cicero - Javier Uría
3. Tibullus' Nemesis: Divine Retribution and the Poet - Emma Stafford
4. Naming Names - or Not: Some Significant Choices and Suppressions in Latin Poetry - Joan Booth
5. The Nomenclature of the Tiber in Virgil's Aeneid - Francis Cairns
6. Antonomasia and Metonymy in the Proem to Virgil's Georgics - Helen Peraki-Kyriakidou
7. From the Metamorphoses to the Fasti: Catalogues of Proper Names - Stratis Kyriakidis
8. Bilingual Word-Play on Personal Names in Martial - Daniel Vallat
9. Onomato-Poetics: A Linear Reading of Martial 7.67-70 - Niklas Holzberg
10. Proper Names as a Linking Device in Martial 5.43-8 - Robert Maltby
11. Naming the Characters: The Cases of Aristomenes, Socrates and Meroe in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 1.2-19 - Andreas Michalopoulos
Indexes
1. The Qualification of Personal Names by Possessive Adjectives in Cicero's letters - Frédérique Biville
2. Personal Names and Invective in Cicero - Javier Uría
3. Tibullus' Nemesis: Divine Retribution and the Poet - Emma Stafford
4. Naming Names - or Not: Some Significant Choices and Suppressions in Latin Poetry - Joan Booth
5. The Nomenclature of the Tiber in Virgil's Aeneid - Francis Cairns
6. Antonomasia and Metonymy in the Proem to Virgil's Georgics - Helen Peraki-Kyriakidou
7. From the Metamorphoses to the Fasti: Catalogues of Proper Names - Stratis Kyriakidis
8. Bilingual Word-Play on Personal Names in Martial - Daniel Vallat
9. Onomato-Poetics: A Linear Reading of Martial 7.67-70 - Niklas Holzberg
10. Proper Names as a Linking Device in Martial 5.43-8 - Robert Maltby
11. Naming the Characters: The Cases of Aristomenes, Socrates and Meroe in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 1.2-19 - Andreas Michalopoulos
Indexes
Product details
| Published | 12 Mar 2007 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 2 |
| ISBN | 9781905125098 |
| Imprint | Classical Press of Wales |
| Illustrations | Illustrations |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | The Classical Press of Wales |
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