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

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Joan Booth, Robert Maltby
• Assisted by: Joan Booth (Editor), Robert Maltby (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781905125098
• ISBN: 978-1-905125-09-8
• No. of pages: 2
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latein