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Terence : Andria
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ISBN: 9781350020634 9781350020627 9781350020658 9781350020641 1350020621 135002063X 1350020648 1350020656 1350020664 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Academic


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De lingua latina
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ISBN: 9780199659739 9780198829232 9780198829249 0199659737 019882923X 0198829248 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford university press,

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Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC) was the greatest polymath of the Roman republic. During his lifetime he authored several hundred books, and though many of them dealt with linguistic topics, the De lingua Latina ('On the Latin language'), the first large-scale linguistic treatment of Latin, was by far his most significant work. Originally consisting of twenty-five volumes - one introductory, followed by six on etymology, six on morphology, and twelve on syntax - only books 5-10 treating etymology and morphology have come down to us in a more or less complete form, though a fair number of fragments of other volumes have been transmitted in other authors. The present volumes aim to provide a comprehensive treatment of this highly technical text in a new critical edition accompanied by a clear, accurate translation and full commentary. In Volume I, an introductory study outlines Varro's life and works, analysing his own linguistic usage and setting his insights about language in their historical and intellectual context. His etymology and morphology are contrasted with our own modern methods, yielding important and sometimes surprising insights into how an educated Roman looked at the history of his own language: although his etymology is, by current standards, pre-scientific, it is actually quite often in agreement with modern etymology, while his morphology also has much in common with a modern approach, focusing on the question of how regular language is and providing arguments against and in favour of regularity. Detailed discussions of these and other of Varro's linguistic ideas are brought to the fore in the exhaustive commentary in Volume II, which also sheds much needed light on the work's textual problems, cultural background, and distinctive Varronian style, and will be indispensible to scholars and students of both classics and linguistics.


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Horacio y la poesía gastronómica antigua
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ISBN: 9788417776558 8417776559 Year: 2019 Publisher: Huelva: Barcelona: Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de Huelva, Universitat de Barcelona,

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Horacio y la poesía gastronómica antigua es un estudio sobre la influencia de la poesía griega y romana de contenidos culinarios sobre las Sátiras 2.4 y 2.8 de Horacio. Tomando como punto de partida la definición de poesía gastronómica adoptada por Enzo Degani para la literatura griega, se lleva a cabo, en la primera parte, una panorámica general de este género o subgénero en Grecia desde el yambo arcaico (Ananio e Hipónax) a las obras de Arquéstrato de Gela y Matrón de Pítane, pasando por la Comedia Antigua y Media; se atiende especialmente a la forma como se presentan dichos contenidos en verso y a otras implicaciones ideológicas relevantes para el estudio de sus continuadores romanos. En la segunda parte, se analiza la introducción de este tipo de poesía en Roma en tres capítulos dedicados, respectivamente, a los Hedyphagetica de Ennio, las Sátiras de Lucilio y la Menipea de Varrón, tomando en consideración los posibles elementos heredados de la literatura griega precedente y los elementos originales. Finalmente, se estudian las citadas sátiras de Horacio a la luz de los precedentes griegos y romanos; además de los aspectos formales, se analiza la cuestión de la interpretación de las dos sátiras y su relación con lo jocoserio.-


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Language and authority in De lingua Latina
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ISBN: 9780299323233 9780299323202 0299323234 029932320X Year: 2019 Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin

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Diana Spencer, known for her scholarly focus on how ancient Romans conceptualized themselves as a people and how they responded to and helped shape the world they lived in, brings her expertise to an examination of the Roman scholar Varro and his treatise De Lingua Latina. This commentary on the origin and relationships of Latin words is an intriguing, but often puzzling, fragmentary work for classicists. Since Varro was engaged in defining how Romans saw themselves and how they talked about their world, Spencer reads along with Varro, following his themes and arcs, his poetic sparks, his political and cultural seams. Few scholars have accepted the challenge of tackling Varro and his work, and in this pioneering volume, Spencer provides a roadmap for considering these topics more thoroughly.

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