True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological WordplayIn True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay, James O’Hara presents a richly annotated, comprehensive collection of examples of etymological wordplay in Vergil’s 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. In this new edition, O’Hara offers more than one hundred new examples, and more than 250 new bibliographical items on etymologizing in Vergil and other ancient authors, especially the other Augustan poets. A substantial new Introduction reflects on the wide scholarly response to the first edition, and it discusses issues in scholarship on etymologizing from the last two decades. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 57
Page xvii
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Page 46
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Page 48
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Page 55
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Page 62
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Contents
1 Etymological Thinking and Wordplay before Vergil | 7 |
2 Typical Features of Vergilian Etymological Wordplay | 57 |
3 The Poetic Function of Vergilian Etymologizing | 102 |
4 About the Catalogue | 111 |
Additional Examples at Asterisks in Catalogue | 291 |
293 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adjective Adkin Aeneas Aeneid aetiology Alba Alexandrian alii allusion amor ancient Apoll Apollonius Apollonius of Rhodes Aratus Ardea arma Ascanius atque Auct autem Bartelink 1965 Cairns Callim Callimachus Carmentis Catullus Cerda cites cognomen cura derivation dicitur dicta dictus dicunt Dido discussion enim Ennius epithet etiam etymological aetiologies etymological connection etymological signpost etymological wordplay examples explicit Feeney Fordyce Georgics gloss glosses the name Graece Greek haec Hardie Homeric Horsfall Hyades Hymn index s.v. ingens ipse ISID Latin lines Lucretius Maltby mentioned mological nomen nomine Norden nQmen nunc O’Hara Ovid Ovid cf paronomasia passage PAUL.-Fest play poetic poetry poets puer quae quam quia quod reference Rhod Roman Ross SCHOL SERV Servius Servius Auctus Servius notes single-epithet gloss suggests sunt suppression see intro Thomas Tibullus Töv Turnus urbem Varro Venus verb Vergil Vergil alludes Vergilian etymologizing Virbius word