Verlag: Princeton Univ Press, 1979
ISBN 10: 0691064016 ISBN 13: 9780691064017
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Zustand: Used - Very Good. 1979. Hardcover. Very Good.
Verlag: Princeton Univ Press, 1979
ISBN 10: 0691064016 ISBN 13: 9780691064017
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Zustand: Used - Like New. 1979. Cloth, dj, octavo, 158 pp.
Verlag: Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1979
Anbieter: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1979. First Edition. NF/NF.
Verlag: Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1979
Anbieter: Pallas Books Antiquarian Booksellers, Leiden, Niederlande
cloth, dustjacket, 8vo ix+157 pp. regional differences in speech; northern characteristics; very good condition.
Verlag: Princeton University Press., 1979
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
Zustand: Gut. IX, 158 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - In the absence of tape recordings from antiquity, we have a limited knowledge of how classical Latin prose or verse sounded as it was rendered orally. Yet we do know that the spoken word varied greatly from place to place, regardless of how much uniformity the written language maintained. Louise Adams Holland considers the geographical basis for these linguistic differences, and advances new arguments for the origin of Lucretius. She shows that he came from the same area of northern Italythe Transpadaneas Catullus and Virgil, and not from Rome as the majority of his critics have contended. -- Demonstrating the importance of using prosodic detail in reconstructing literary history, the author focuses on Lucretius's use of elision in de Rerum Natura. From Cicero's rhetorical writings, she makes a strong case that such use of elision was not characteristic of the dialect of Rome, but rather of the speech habits prevailing in the far north of Italy. The author places her thesis within a wide context that includes the language-attitudes of the period, the historical relations between poets from the provinces and the urban audience in Rome, and the personal and political connections of literary figures of the period. Her most important finding is that the original dedication of the de Rerum Natura was to Julius Caesar. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dust jacket.
Verlag: PRINCETON UNIV PRESS@, 1979
Anbieter: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, USA
hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. Some wear to the dustjacket.
Zustand: Antiquarian. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1979. IX,158p. Original off white cloth with dust wrps. Nice copy. 'Little is known about Lucretius beyond the fact that he lived in the first half of the first century B.C. and dedicated his 'De Rerum Natura' to a certain Memmius. The general tone of the poem and certain details of its content have led most commentators to conclude that its author was probably a Roman of aristocratic birth. This view has now been challenged by Louise Holland, whose book advances new arguments, based mainly on considerations of style and prosody, to suggest that Lucretius came from the same Transpadane area of Northern Italy as Catullus and Vergil. The book begins by considering the evidence for regional differences in the pronunciation of late Republican Latin and relies mainly on comments in Cicero's rhetorical works. (.) The main thesis of the first half of the book (chapters 1-3) is that Lucretius's use of elision reflects Northern rather than Roman practice. (.) Holland's sensitive discussion of the sound-effects in a number of individual passages is of great value in dispelling once and for all the view that frequent elision in Catullus and Lucretius is a sign of carelessness or ineptitude, but there are difficulties in accepting her overall thesis (pp.14, 17) that the type and number of elisions in a work reflect the geographical origins of its author. AS Holland's own discussion of Horace shows (p.16), one of the main factors determining the frequency of elision in Republican and Augustan verse was genre. (.) The second half of the book (chapters 4-6) moves on to consider wider aspects of Lucretius' cultural and literary background. (.) [It] is on the whole more closely argues and convincing that the first and should provoke much discussion of traditionally held views. The main value of the first half lies in the detailed analysis in chapters 2 and 3 of individual passages from Catullus and Lucretius, but its overall thesis on the geographical basis for prosodic distinctions must be declared unproven.' (ROBERT MALTBY in The Classical Review (New Series), 1981, pp.21-23). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. Antiquarian.