What's in a Name?: The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin LiteratureLatin 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. |
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Introduction Robert Maltby vii | |
Personal names and invective in Cicero 13 | |
divine retribution and the poet 33 | |
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