WHAT'S IN A NAME?: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PROPER NAMES IN CLASSICAL LATIN LITERATURE; ED. BY JOAN BOOTH

"Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. Here, in eleven new essays, an eminent international cast explore themes which include `speaking' names, often involving bilingual Latin/Greek play; the ways in which persons and objects are named in contexts of invective or endearment; the significant suppression or changing of names; the religious and historical significances of names; the uses of names in literary catalogues; names as devices to structure a group of shorter poems. Contents Introduction 1 The Qualification of Personal Names by the Possessive Adjective in the Cicero's letters 2 Personal names and invective in Cicero 3 Tibullus ’ Nemesis : Divine Retribution and the poet 4 NAMING NAMES – OR NOT: SOME SIGNIFICANT CHOICES AND SUPPRESSIONS IN LATIN POETRY 5 The nomenclature of the Tiber in Virgil ’s Aeneid 6 Antonomasia and meton ymy in the proem to Virgil ’s Georgics 7 From the Metamorophoses to the Fasti: Catalogues of proper names 8 Bilingual pla ys on proper names in Martial 9 ONOMATO-POETICS: A Linear Reading of Martial 7.67–70 10 Proper -names as a linking device in Martial 5.43 - 8 11 Naming the characters :the cases of Aristomenes , Socrates and Meroe in Apuleius ’ (1.2 - 19?) Index rerum Index Nominum Propriorum INDEX LOCORUM INDEX VERBORUM Latinorum INDEX VERBORUM Graecorum Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. This book explores themes which include 'speaking' names, often involving bilingual Latin/Greek play; the ways in which persons and objects are named in contexts of invective or endearment; and more.