Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World

Herausgeber: Pezzini, Giuseppe; Taylor, Barnaby

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Produktbeschreibung

The first collection of essays dedicated to Roman linguistic naturalism, a major but under-studied area of Roman linguistic and philosophical thought. Brings together an international group of experts to consider naturalism in a wide variety of ancient authors including Cicero, Varro, Nigidius, Posidonius, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781108727815
• ISBN-10: 1108727816
• Artikelnr.: 67101345

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: first thoughts on language and nature Giuseppe Pezzini and
Barnaby Taylor; 1. Posidonius' linguistic naturalism and its philosophical
pedigree Alexander Verlinsky; 2. Lucilius on Latin spelling, grammar and
usage Anna Chahoud; 3. Nigidius Figulus' naturalism: between grammar and
philosophy Alessandro Garcea; 4. Naturalism in morphology: Varro on
derivation and inflection Wolfgang D. C. De Melo; 5. What's Hecuba to him?
Varro on the natural kinship of things and of words David Blank; 6.
Linguistic naturalism in Cicero's Academica Tobias Reinhardt; 7. Linguistic
naturalism and natural style: from Varro and Cicero to Dionysius of
Halicarnassus Casper C. de Jonge; 8. Natural law and natural language in
the first century BCE James Zetzel.