Aspects of the Language of Latin Poetry
by J. N. Adams (Editor), R. G. Mayer (Editor)
Proceedings of the British Academy (93)
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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J. N. Adams is a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy.
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Poetry
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- 871.0109 — Literature & rhetoric Latin & Italic literatures Latin poetry Latin poets Classical period to 500CE
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- PA2333 .A85 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Latin philology and language
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