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True names : Vergil and the Alexandrian tradition of etymological wordplay /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Hara, James J., 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2017.
Edition:New and expanded edition, first papeback edition.
Subjects:
Virgil > Literary style.
Virgil > Knowledge > Language and languages.
Greek poetry, Hellenistic > Egypt > Alexandria > History and criticism.
Latin poetry > Greek influences.
Latin language > Etymology.
Names in literature.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Plays on words.
Alexandria (Egypt) > Intellectual life.
Rome > In literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Key to abbreviations, and dates of sources
  • Introduction to the new and expanded edition
  • List of new examples
  • New bibliography
  • Introduction
  • Etymological thinking and wordplay before Vergil
  • Typical features of Vergilian etymological wordplay
  • The poetic function of Vergilian etymologizing
  • About the catalogue. Catalogue of etymological wordplay
  • Appendix : additional examples at asterisks in catalogue
  • Bibliography
  • General index
  • Index of words glossed
  • General index for new introduction and examples
  • Index of words glossed in new introduction and examples.