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Maltby, Robert | Booth, Joan

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

2006 - The Classical Press of Wales

250 p.

  • 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. [Publisher's text].
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