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 ...
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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.
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  • ISBN-13: 9781905125098
  • Publisher: Classical Press of Wales, The
  • Publication date: 6/28/2006
  • Pages: 196
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Table of Contents


Introduction   Robert Maltby     vii
The qualification of personal names by possessive adjectives in Cicero's letters   Frederique Biville     1
Personal names and invective in Cicero   Javier Uria     13
Tibullus' Nemesis: divine retribution and the poet   Emma Stafford     33
Naming names - or not: some significant choices and suppressions in Latin poetry   Joan Booth     49
The nomenclature of the Tiber in Virgil's Aeneid   Francis Cairns     65
Antonomasia and metonymy in the proem to Virgil's Georgics   Helen Peraki-Kyriakidou     83
From the Metamorphoses to the Fasti: Catalogues of proper names   Stratis Kyriakidis     101
Bilingual word-play on personal names in Martial   Daniel Vallat     121
Onomato-poetics: a linear reading of Martial 7.67-70   Niklas Holzberg     145
Proper names as a linking device in Martial 5-43-8   Robert Maltby     159
Naming the characters: the cases of Ariscomenes, Socrates and Meroe in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 1.2-19   Andreas Michalopoulos     169
Indexes     189
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