What's in a name? : the significance of proper names in classical Latin literature
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Booth, Joan.
Maltby, Robert. Biville, Frédérique. |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Swansea, Wales : Oakville, CT :
Classical Press of Wales ; Distributor in the United States: The David Brown Book Co.,
2006.
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| Umfang/Format: |
ix, 196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction / Robert Maltby
- The qualification of personal names by possessive adjectives in Cicero's letters / Frédérique Biville
- Personal names and invective in Cicero / Javier Uría
- Tibullus' Nemesis: divine retribution and the poet / Emma Stafford
- 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
- Autnomasia and metonymy in the preom to Virgil's Georgics / Helen Peraki-Kyriakidou
- From the Metamorphoses to the Fasti: catalogues of proper names / Stratis Kyriakidid
- Bilingual word-play on personal names in Martial / Daniel Vallat
- Onomato-poetics: a linear reading of Martial 7.67-70 / Niklas Holzberg
- Proper names as a linking device in Martial 5.43-8 / Robert Maltby
- Naming the characters: the cases of Aristomenes, Socrates and Meroe in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 1.2-19 / Andreas Michalopoulos.
