Book Description
Published in 1951, this is an exhaustive study of the versification of the great Latin elegists of the Augustan age.
Author : Maurice Platnauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1108053718
Published in 1951, this is an exhaustive study of the versification of the great Latin elegists of the Augustan age.
Author : A.M. Devine
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3111386066
A striking feature of Latin elegiac verse is its very free word order. One gets the impression that the word order is just random or that the rules of Latin syntax have been suspended for metrical convenience. Combining ample philological documentation with an overall theoretical stance, this book argues that these impressions are wrong and proceeds to analyze the syntax of Latin verse as a coherent system generated by the application of a small set of derivational rules. While these rules are independently available syntactic mechanisms like scrambling, stranding and verb raising, their systematically regular application both at the clausal and at the phrasal level is remarkable. Not only complete constituents but also partial constituents are constantly attracted towards the left edge of the phrase that contains them. The cumulative effect of this is to narrow the extent and attenuate the weight of the nuclear assertion, which reduces its processing domain and the span of its prosodic correlate. This book will be of interest both to Classicists and to linguists: it aims to solve an old problem in Classical philology, while at the same time working out a configurational syntax for a language with extreme free word order.
Author : Thea S. Thorsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1107511747
Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and Roman backdrop for Latin love elegy, the individual Latin love elegists (both the canonical and the non-canonical), their poems and influence on writers in later times. The book is designed as an accessible introduction for the general reader interested in Latin love elegy and the history of love and lament in Western literature, as well as a collection of critically stimulating essays for students and scholars of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.
Author : Edward Walford
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 1847
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Author : C. Gepp
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368146564
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author : John Penrose
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 1852
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Author : William John Hemsley
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Elegiac poetry, Latin
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Author : C. Gepp
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368833219
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : Marek Tue Kretschmer
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Classical poetry
ISBN : 9782503587035
The Versus Eporedienses (Verses from Ivrea), written around the year 1080 and attributed to a certain Wido, is a highly fascinating elegiac love poem celebrating worldly pleasures in an age usually associated with contemptus mundi. One of the poem's intriguing features, its extensive use of the Latin classics, especially of Ovid, makes it a precursor of the poetry of the so-called twelfth-century renaissance. In this first book-length study of the poem, the author provides a historical contextualisation, a verse-by-verse commentary, a detailed analysis of the classical sources and a discussion of its similarities with contemporary and later medieval poetry.
Author : Ovid
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Parallel latin & English texts.