True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological WordplayIn ancient thinking about etymology, knowledge of a term's origin meant knowledge of the essential qualities of the person, place, or thing it named. While scholars have long noted Vergil's allusions to etymologies, interest in such wordplay has grown rapidly in recent years and lies at the heart of contemporary scholarship's growing concern with the learned aspects and Alexandrian background of Vergilian poetry. In his new book, James O'Hara has produced a richly annotated, comprehensive collection of examples of etymological wordplay in the Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics. An extensive introduction on the etymologizing of Vergil and his poetic forerunners places the poet in historical context and analyzes the form and style of his wordplay. O'Hara also discusses how etymologizing served Vergil's poetic goals, and he explains how the role of word origins in Vergil's poems illuminates the origins and essential characteristics of the Roman people. The etymological catalog quotes each Vergilian passage, then explains the wordplay or possible wordplay, and refers to ancient grammarians and poets who mention similar etymologies. While bibliographical references are provided for most examples, many entries describe examples of wordplay never before noticed. Throughout the catalog, extensive cross-references direct the reader and render consultation easy. |
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... discussion is both impractical and unnec- essary , and a monograph is expected from Robert Maltby as a followup to his enormously useful Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies , but a survey of the practices of earlier authors is needed ...
... discussion is both impractical and unnec- essary , and a monograph is expected from Robert Maltby as a followup to his enormously useful Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies , but a survey of the practices of earlier authors is needed ...
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... discussion of assonance and wordplay in Homer see Macleod ( 1982 ) 50-53 . 12. Nagy ( 1979 ) 70 argues that this meaning of the name “ is intrinsic to the function of Achilles in myth and epic . " For the suggestions of Apollonius ...
... discussion of assonance and wordplay in Homer see Macleod ( 1982 ) 50-53 . 12. Nagy ( 1979 ) 70 argues that this meaning of the name “ is intrinsic to the function of Achilles in myth and epic . " For the suggestions of Apollonius ...
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... discussion above ; repetition is then avoided . As in the discussion , cross - references to a Vergilian passage with my main . mentions such examples only after the last footnote of the section in which they would have appeared had he ...
... discussion above ; repetition is then avoided . As in the discussion , cross - references to a Vergilian passage with my main . mentions such examples only after the last footnote of the section in which they would have appeared had he ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Etymological Thinking and Wordplay before Vergil | 7 |
Typical Features of Vergilian Etymological Wordplay | 57 |
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adjective Aeneas Aeneid aetiology Alba Alexandrian alii allusion amor Apoll Apollonius Apollonius of Rhodes Aratus Ardea arma Ascanius atque Auct autem Bartelink 1965 called Callim Callimachus Carmentis Catullus Cerda cites cognomen cognomine cura derivation dicitur dicta dictus dicunt Dido discussion enim Ennius epithet etiam etymological connection etymological signpost etymological wordplay examples explicit Feeney Fordyce Georgics gloss glosses the name Graece Greek haec Homeric Horsfall Hyades Hymn ingens ISID Latin lines Lucretius Maltby mological nomen nomine Norden nunc O'Hara Ovid Ovid cf paronomasia passage PAUL.-Fest play poets puer quae quam quia quod reference Rhod Roman Ross SCHOL SERV Servius Servius notes single-epithet gloss suggests sunt suppression see intro Turnus Varro verb Vergil Vergil alludes Vergilian etymologizing Virbius word ἀπὸ γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν οἱ ὅτι τε τὴν τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῶν ὡς