Aspects of the Language in Latin Poetry,9780197261781

Aspects of the Language in Latin Poetry

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ISBN13: 9780197261781
ISBN10: 0197261787
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-07-29
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Of the peoples of ancient Italy, only the Romans committed newly composed poems to writing, and for about 250 years Latin-speakers developed an impressive verse literature. The language had traditional resources of high style, e.g. alliteration, lexical and morphological archaism or grecism,and of course metaphor and word-order; and there were also less obvious resources in the technical vocabularies of law, philosophy, and medicine. The essays in this volume show how the poets in the classical period combined these elements, and so created a poetic medium that could comprehendsatire, invective, erotic elegy, drama, lyric, and the grandest heroic epos. These wide-ranging studies will be essential reading for all students of Latin.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1(20)
J.N. ADAMS
R.G. MAYER
General
21(76)
Poetic Diction, Poetic Discourse and the Poetic Register
21(76)
R.G. G. COLEMAN
Word Order
97(60)
Nominative Personal Pronouns and Some Patterns of Speech in Republican and Augustan Poetry
97(38)
J.N. ADAMS
The Word Order of Horace's Odes
135(22)
R.G.M. NISBET
Greek Influence and Technical Vocabularies
157(92)
Grecism
157(26)
R.G. MAYER
The Language of Poetry and the Language of Science: The Latin Poets and `Medical Latin'
183(44)
D.R. LANGSLOW
Lucretius' Use and Avoidance of Greek
227(22)
DAVID SEDLEY
Syntax
249(40)
Archaism and Innovation in Latin Poetic Syntax
249(20)
J.H.W. PENNEY
Rowing Strokes: Tentative Considerations on `Shifting' Objects in Virgil and Elsewhere
269(20)
WOLDEMAR GORLER
Stylistic and Generic Variation
289(126)
The Language of Early Roman Satire: Its Function and Characteristics
289(22)
HUBERT PETERSMANN
Stylistic Registers in Juvenal
311(24)
J.G.F. POWELL
The Arrangement and the Language of Catullus' so-called polymetra with Special Reference to the Sequence 10-11-12
335(42)
H.D. JOCELYN
Tibullus and the Language of Latin Elegy
377(22)
R. MALTBY
Vt erat novator: Anomaly, Innovation and Genre in Ovid, Heroides 16-21
399(16)
E.J. KENNEY
Bibliography 415(22)
Index verborum 437(5)
Index locorum 442(3)
Index rerum 445

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