What's in a name? : the significance of proper names in classical Latin literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Booth, Joan, Maltby, Robert, Biville, Frédérique
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Swansea, Wales : Classical Press of Wales ; 2006.
Subjects:	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.

Table of 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.