Research Catalog

Title

What's in a name? the significance of proper names in classical Latin literature / editors, Joan Booth and Robert Maltby ; contributors, Frédérique Biville ... [et al.]

Author

International Conference on the Significance of Proper Names in Latin Literature (2002 : University of Wales)

Publication

Swansea, Wales : Classical Press of Wales ; Oakville, CT : Distributor in the United States: The David Brown Book Co., 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Booth, Joan
• Maltby, Robert
• Biville, Frédérique

Description

ix, 196 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Latin literature > History and criticism > Congresses
• Onomastics in literature > Congresses
• Onomastics > Rome > Congresses
• Authors, Latin > Literary style > Congresses
• Latin language > Names > Congresses
• Names in literature > Congresses
• Onomasiology > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Gregynog (2002)
• Kongress.

Note

• Papers from a conference held at the University of Wales, Gregynog, in July 2002.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 1905125097
• 9781905125098

OCLC

• 123970599
• SCSB-11129363

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library