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Title 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]
Published Swansea, Wales : Classical Press of Wales ; Oakville, CT : Distributor in the United States : David Brown Book Co., 2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 196 pages) : illustrations
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
Analysis Proper names
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Latin literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Onomastics in literature -- Congresses
Onomastics -- Rome -- Congresses
Authors, Latin -- Literary style -- Congresses
Latin language -- Etymology -- Names -- Congresses
Names, Latin, in literature -- Congresses
Onomasiology -- Congresses
Plays on names -- Congresses
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Latin language -- Etymology -- Names
Latin literature
Names, Latin, in literature
Onomasiology
Onomastics
Onomastics in literature
Plays on names
Latein
Literatur
Name Motiv
Rome (Empire)
Latein.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Gregynog (2002)
Kongress.
Form Electronic book
Author Booth, Joan
Maltby, Robert
Biville, Frédérique
ISBN 9781910589281
1910589284