Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World

Presents the first collection of essays dedicated to Roman linguistic naturalism, a major but under-studied area of Roman linguistic thought.

List of contents

Introduction: first thoughts on language and nature Giuseppe Pezzini and Barnaby Taylor; 1. Posidonius' linguistic naturalism and its philosophical pedigree Alexander Verlinsky; 2. Lucilius on Latin spelling, grammar and usage Anna Chahoud; 3. Nigidius Figulus' naturalism: between grammar and philosophy Alessandro Garcea; 4. Naturalism in morphology: Varro on derivation and inflection Wolfgang D. C. De Melo; 5. What's Hecuba to him? Varro on the natural kinship of things and of words David Blank; 6. Linguistic naturalism in Cicero's Academica Tobias Reinhardt; 7. Linguistic naturalism and natural style: from Varro and Cicero to Dionysius of Halicarnassus Casper C. de Jonge; 8. Natural law and natural language in the first century BCE James Zetzel.

About the author

Giuseppe Pezzini is a lecturer in Latin at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He was an assistant editor for The Oxford Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (2012, 2013), and is working on an edition of Terence's Heauton Timorumenos for the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series.Barnaby Taylor is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Exeter College, Oxford, and Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oxford. His interests lie in Latin language and literature, particularly the language and linguistic thought of Lucretius.

Summary

The first collection of essays dedicated to Roman linguistic naturalism, a major but under-studied area of Roman linguistic and philosophical thought. Brings together an international group of experts to consider naturalism in a wide variety of ancient authors including Cicero, Varro, Nigidius, Posidonius, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

Product details

• Authors: EDITED BY GIUSEPPE P, Giuseppe (University of St Andrews Pezzini
• Assisted by: Giuseppe Pezzini (Editor), Giuseppe (University of St Andrews Pezzini (Editor), Barnaby Taylor (Editor), Barnaby (University of Oxford) Taylor (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108480666
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48066-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, Latin, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Ancient Rome, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval