What's in a name?
the significance of proper name in classical latin literature
- ISBN: 9781905125098
- Editorial: The Classical Press of Wales
- Fecha de la edición: 2007
- Lugar de la edición: Swansea. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 189
- Idiomas: Inglés
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.