What's in a name? : the significance of proper names in classical Latin literature / editors, Joan Booth and Robert Maltby ; contributors, Frédérique Biville [and others].
| Other author | Booth, Joan. |
| Other author | Maltby, Robert. |
| Other author | Biville, Frédérique. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Swansea, Wales : Classical Press of Wales ; Oakville, CT : Distributor in the United States: The David Brown Book Co., 2006. |
| Description | ix, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Robert Maltby -- The qualification of personal names by possessive adjectives in Cicero's letters / Frédérique Biville -- Personal names and invective in Cicero / Javier Uría -- Tibullus' Nemesis: divine retribution and the poet / Emma Stafford -- Naming names -- or not: some significant choices and suppressions in Latin poetry / Joan Booth -- The nomenclature of the Tiber in Virgil's Aeneid / Francis Cairns -- Autnomasia and metonymy in the preom to Virgil's Georgics / Helen Peraki-Kyriakidou -- From the Metamorphoses to the Fasti: catalogues of proper names / Stratis Kyriakidid -- Bilingual word-play on personal names in Martial / Daniel Vallat -- Onomato-poetics: a linear reading of Martial 7.67-70 / Niklas Holzberg -- Proper names as a linking device in Martial 5.43-8 / Robert Maltby -- Naming the characters: the cases of Aristomenes, Socrates and Meroe in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 1.2-19 / Andreas Michalopoulos. |
| General note | Papers from a conference held at the University of Wales, Gregynog, in July 2002. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2007540792 |
| ISBN | 1905125097 |
| ISBN | 9781905125098 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PA 2343 .W48 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |