What's in a Name? : The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature

ISBN
9781905125098
Format Trade Cloth
Details
  • 9.2" x 6.1" x 0.6"
  • Active Record
  • Individual Title
  • Books
  • 2006
  • 250
  • Yes
  • Print
  • 1
  • PA2343.I58 2002
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.