Beschreibung:
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.
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.
IntroductionRobert Maltby 1. The qualification of personal names by possessive adjectives in Cicero's lettersFrederique Biville 2. Personal names and invective in CiceroJavier Uria 3. Tibullus' Nemesis: divine retribution and the poetEmma Stafford 4. Naming names - or not: some significant choices and suppressions in Latin poetryJoan Booth 5. The nomenclature of the Tiber in Virgil's AeneidFrancis Cairns 6. Antonomasia and metonymy in the proem to Virgil's GeorgicsHelen Peraki-Kyriakidou 7. From the Metamorphoses to the Fasti: Catalogues of proper namesStratis Kyriakidis 8. Bilingual word-play on personal names in MartialDaniel Vallat 9. Onomato-poetics: a linear reading of Martial 7.67-70Niklas Holzberg 10. Proper names as a linking device in Martial 5.43-8Robert Maltby 11. Naming the characters: the cases of Aristomenes, Socrates and Meroe in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 1.2-19Andreas Michalopoulos Indexes