True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological WordplayUniversity of Michigan Press, 1996 - 320 من الصفحات In ancient thinking about etymology, knowledge of a term's origin meant knowledge of the essential qualities of the person, place, or thing it named. While scholars have long noted Vergil's allusions to etymologies, interest in such wordplay has grown rapidly in recent years and lies at the heart of contemporary scholarship's growing concern with the learned aspects and Alexandrian background of Vergilian poetry. In his new book, James O'Hara has produced a richly annotated, comprehensive collection of examples of etymological wordplay in the Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics. An extensive introduction on the etymologizing of Vergil and his poetic forerunners places the poet in historical context and analyzes the form and style of his wordplay. O'Hara also discusses how etymologizing served Vergil's poetic goals, and he explains how the role of word origins in Vergil's poems illuminates the origins and essential characteristics of the Roman people. The etymological catalog quotes each Vergilian passage, then explains the wordplay or possible wordplay, and refers to ancient grammarians and poets who mention similar etymologies. While bibliographical references are provided for most examples, many entries describe examples of wordplay never before noticed. Throughout the catalog, extensive cross-references direct the reader and render consultation easy. |
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... discuss all plausible examples that I , or any other scholar of whose work I am aware , have found in Vergil's works ... discussion of Sophocles ; for Zeus , Di- , dia , G. 4.219-22 ; for Delos , A. 6.11-12 ; for Actios , A. 3.280 ; for ...
... discuss all plausible examples that I , or any other scholar of whose work I am aware , have found in Vergil's works ... discussion of Sophocles ; for Zeus , Di- , dia , G. 4.219-22 ; for Delos , A. 6.11-12 ; for Actios , A. 3.280 ; for ...
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... discussion is both impractical and unnec- essary , and a monograph is expected from Robert Maltby as a followup to his enormously useful Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies , but a survey of the practices of earlier authors is needed ...
... discussion is both impractical and unnec- essary , and a monograph is expected from Robert Maltby as a followup to his enormously useful Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies , but a survey of the practices of earlier authors is needed ...
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... discussion above ; repetition is then avoided . As in the discussion , cross - references to a Vergilian passage with my main mentions such examples only after the last footnote of the section in which they would have appeared had he ...
... discussion above ; repetition is then avoided . As in the discussion , cross - references to a Vergilian passage with my main mentions such examples only after the last footnote of the section in which they would have appeared had he ...
المحتوى
Introduction | 1 |
Etymological Thinking and Wordplay before Vergil | 7 |
Typical Features of Vergilian Etymological Wordplay | 57 |
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