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Latin Forms of Address

Eleanor Dickey
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      How did Romans address their children, their parents, their slaves, and their patrons? When one Roman called another 'dearest', 'master', 'brother', 'human being', 'executioner', or 'soft little cheese', what did these terms really mean and why? This book brings to bear on such questions a corpus of 15,441 addresses spanning four centuries, drawn from literary prose, poetry, letters, inscriptions, ostraca, and papyri and analysed during recent work insociolinguistics. The results offer new insights into Roman culture and shed a fresh light on the interpretation of numerous passages in literature. A glossary of the 500 most common addresses and quick-reference tables explaining the rules of usage make this book a valuable resource for Latin teachers and allactive users of the language, while the evidence for the investigations behind these conclusions will fascinate scholars and laymen alike. Original, jargon-free, and highly readable, this work will be enjoyed even by those with no prior knowledge of Latin.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Eleanor Dickey EAN: 9780199239054 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 546 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2007-12-06 CITY: GENRE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      Latin, Linguistics, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Eleanor Dickey is Assistant Professor of Classics at Columbia University.
      How did Romans address their children, their parents, their slaves, and their patrons? When one Roman called another 'dearest', 'master', 'brother', 'human being', 'executioner', or 'soft little cheese', what did these terms really mean and why? This book brings to bear on such questions a corpus of 15,441 addresses spanning four centuries, drawn from literary prose, poetry, letters, inscriptions, ostraca, and papyri and analysed during recent work insociolinguistics. The results offer new insights into Roman culture and shed a fresh light on the interpretation of numerous passages in literature. A glossary of the 500 most common addresses and quick-reference tables explaining the rules of usage make this book a valuable resource for Latin teachers and allactive users of the language, while the evidence for the investigations behind these conclusions will fascinate scholars and laymen alike. Original, jargon-free, and highly readable, this work will be enjoyed even by those with no prior knowledge of Latin.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Eleanor Dickey EAN: 9780199239054 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 546 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2007-12-06 CITY: GENRE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      Latin, Linguistics, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Eleanor Dickey is Assistant Professor of Classics at Columbia University.

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