Comparative Studies in Republican Latin Imagery / / Elaine Fantham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Fantham, Elaine ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by staleness or by tasteless excess. This volume establishes some of the limitations which govern figurative language in Latin speech and prose by exploring such questions as these: From what physical or social contexts is Latin imagery derived? To what extent is it influenced by the primacy of Greek as a cultural language and the derivation of the earliest Latin literature from Greek models? How are the metaphors expressed in terms of syntax, through verb, noun, adjective, or a combination of syntactical forms? How are the form and content of imagery related to the literary genre? In this study Professor Fantham analyses in detail the conservative imagery of Terence and of Cicero's letters, contrasting this naturalistic language with the fantasies of Plautus and the formalization of Cicero's speeches. A separate chapter on the de Oratore shows how the thematic and structural use of metaphor and analogy provide balance and continuity, giving Latin prose imagery its full role in a mature classical work of art. Numerous illustrative passages from Greek New Comedy, Terence, Plautus, and Cicero are reproduced in the text.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: The Imagery of Terence -- Introduction. Metaphor and imagery in Terence -- 1. The main categories of metaphorical allusion -- 2. Individual usages -- 3. A comparison of imagery in Plautus and Terence -- Appendix I. The imagery of love in Terence and sermo amatorius -- Part II. Artistic Deviation And Development -- 4. Plautus and the imagery of fantasy -- 5. Beyond sermo familiaris: the imagery of rhetoric -- 6. Imagery in the literary dialogue: Cicero's de Oratore -- Appendix II. Criticial comments on the use of metaphor in de Oratore 3.155-68 -- 7. Some conclusions -- Indexes