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Zusatztext His aim is to simplify, thus helping students who recoil from the quantitative metres ‘with quite unjustifiable alarm’. Whether they embark on the perilous seas of verse composition or only read the Roman poets, they will profit greatly... Informationen zum Autor D.S. Raven was Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, UK. Klappentext This is an accessible, jargon free reference work, written in the simplest possible terms, for students and teachers, covering every type Latin metre from the early "saturnian" to medieval accentual verse."In this companion volume to his Greek Metre , D.S. Raven has provided a work of reference which will be useful not only the undergratuate and [A-level] student but also many teachers of Latin. On every kind of metre, from the primitive "saturnian" to medieval accentual, information is given in the simplest possible terms. There are metrical notes on selected authors and an index of technical terms. With this introduction at hand, no-one who reads any kind of Latin poetry has legitimate grounds for thinking that questions of metre are too difficult or boring." - Times Literary Supplement"His aim is to simplify, thus helping students who recoil from the quantitative metres 'with quite unjustifiable alarm'. Whether they embark on the perilous seas of verse composition or only read the Roman poets, they will profit greatly..." - Greece and Rome Vorwort An accessible, jargon-free reference work for students and teachers on every type Latin metre from the early "saturnian" to medieval accentual verse. Zusammenfassung The aim of this title is to provide a reference work for both students and teachers on every kind of Latin metre from the early "saturnian" to medieval accentual verse. The information provided aims to be in its simplest form to make the subject more accessible and jargon free. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introductory Note 1. Latin Verse Structure and History 2. Quantity, Prosody and the Basic Rhythms 3. Word Accent; Saturnian Verse; the Influence of Accent throughout Latin Verse Literature 4. Iambic and Trochaic Verse 5. Dactylic Verse and Simple Dactylic Compounds 6. Anapaestic Verse 7. Bacchaic and Cretic Verse 8. Ionic Verse 9. Aeolic Verse Index A: Names of Various Metrical Forms and Terms Index B: References to Authors and Passages Appendix A: A note on Prose Rhythm and Ciceronian 'Clausulae' Appendix B: Metrical Notes on Selected Authors ...
