Aspects of the Language of Latin Poetry
James N. Adams
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 comprehend satire, invective, erotic elegy, drama, lyric, and the grandest heroic epics. These wide-ranging studies will be essential reading for all students of Latin.
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年:
1999
出版商:
Oxford Univ. Press
語言:
english
ISBN 10:
0197261787
ISBN 13:
9780197261781
系列:
Proceedings of the British Academy 93
文件:
PDF, 7.66 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1999