Early Latin: Constructs, Diversity, ReceptionJ. N. Adams, Anna Chahoud, Giuseppe Pezzini This is the most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an international team of scholars. 'Early Latin' is interpreted liberally as extending from the period of early inscriptions through to the first quarter of the first century BC. Classical Latin features significantly in the volume, although in a restricted sense. In the classical period there were writers who imitated the Latin of an earlier age, and there were also interpreters of early Latin. Later authors and views on early Latin language are also examined as some of these are relevant to the establishment of the text of earlier writers. A major aim of the book is to define linguistic features of different literary genres, and to address problems such as the limits of periodisation and the definition of the very concept of 'early Latin'. |
Contents
Identifying Latin in Early Inscriptions | |
A Linguistic Analysis | |
Metre | |
Wolfgang de Melo and Giuseppe Pezzini | |
Support Verb Constructions in Plautus and Terence | |
Aspects of Questions | |
Greek Influences on Catos Latin | |
Greek Loanwords in Early Latin | |
Lucretius and Early Latin | |
Cicero and Early Dramatic Latin | |
Early Latin Texts in Livy | |
Pliny Rewrites Cato | |
Gellius Appreciation and Understanding of Early Latin | |
Views on Early Latin in Grammatical Texts | |
Background of a Latin Aduerbium | |
Early Latin Lexicon in Terence and Plautus | |
A Comparison of the Language of Tragedy and Comedy in Early | |
The Language of Early Latin Epic | |
Early Latin Prayers and Aspects of Coordination | |
Some Syntactic Features of Latin Legal Texts | |
From Cato to C Gracchus | |
How Early Latin Is Lucilius? | |
Nonius Marcellus and the Shape of Early Latin | |
Festus and Scaliger | |
Early Latin as a Concept | |
Bibliography | |
Index Verborum | |
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