Moreno Soldevila / Marina Castillo / Fernández Valverde A Prosopography to Martial’s Epigrams

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-11-062153-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 714 Seiten

A Prosopography to Martial’s Epigrams is the first dictionary of all the characters and personal names found in the work of Marcus Valerius Martialis, containing nearly 1,000 comprehensive entries. Each of them compiles and analyses all the relevant information regarding the characters themselves, as well as the literary implications of their presence in Martial’s poems. Unlike other works of this kind, the book encompasses not only real people, whose positive existence is beyond doubt, but also fictional characters invented by the poet or inherited from the cultural and literary tradition. Its entries provide the passages of the epigrams where the respective characters appear; the general category to which they belong; the full name (in the case of historical characters); onomastic information, especially about frequency, meaning, and etymology; other literary or epigraphical sources; a prosopographical sketch; a discussion of relevant manuscript variants; and a bibliography. Much attention is paid to the literary portrayal of each character and the poetic usages of their names. This reference work is a much needed tool and is intended as a stimulus for further research.

Zielgruppe

Scholars, institutes, libraries / Classicists, Ancient Historians, Philologists, students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moreno Soldevila, Rosario

Marina Castillo, Alberto

Fernández Valverde, Juan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Etymologie, Onomastik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Alberto Marina Castillo, and Juan Fernández Valverde, Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla, Spain.