This is the most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an international team of scholars. 'Early Latin' is interpreted liberally as extending from the period of early inscriptions through to the first quarter of the first century BC. Classical Latin features significantly in the volume, although in a restricted sense. In the classical period there were writers who imitated the Latin of an earlier age, and there were also interpreters of early Latin. Later authors and views on early Latin language are also examined as some of these are relevant to the establishment of the text of earlier writers. A major aim of the book is to define linguistic features of different literary genres, and to address problems such as the limits of periodisation and the definition of the very concept of 'early Latin'.
The most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an international team of scholars. Defines linguistic features of different literary genres, and addresses problems such as the limits of periodisation and the definition of the very concept of 'early Latin'.
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'It is a great achievement, and I expect it both to be a foundation stone for much further research in this area, and to make a significant intervention into our definition of, and thinking about, Early Latin.' Nicholas Zair, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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The first critical definition of 'early Latin' through studies of Republican Latin and its reception from the antiquity to modernity.
1. Introduction: What is early Latin? Giuseppe Pezzini and Anna Chahoud;
Part I. General (Morphology, Syntax, Lexicon and Metre):
2. Alphabet,
epigraphy, and literacy in central Italy in the 7th /5th c. BC Rex Wallace;
3. Identifying Latin in early inscriptions Simona Marchesini;
4. The Egadi
Rostra, a linguistic analysis Wolfgang D. C. de Melo;
5. Morphology and
syntax in early Latin Wolfgang D. C. de Melo;
6. Early Latin metre Wolfgang
D. C. de Melo and Giuseppe Pezzini;
7. Greek Loanwords in early Latin James
Clackson;
8. Latin edepol 'by Pollux': background of a Latin aduerbium
iuratiuum Brent Vine;
9. Indirect questions in early Latin Peter
Barrios-Lech;
10. Ecquis in early Latin: aspects of questions Colette
Bodelot; Part II. Authors and Genres:
11. Support verb constructions in
Plautus and Terence José Miguel Bańos;
12. Early Latin prayers and aspects of
coordination James Adams and Veronika Nikitina;
13. 'Early Latin' lexicon in
Terence (and Plautus) Giuseppe Pezzini;
14. Early Latin and the fragments of
Atellana Comedy Costas Panayotakis;
15. A comparison of the language of
comedy and tragedy in early Latin drama Robert Maltby;
16. The language of
early Latin epic Sander Goldberg;
17. How 'early Latin' is Lucilius? Anna
Chahoud;
18. Repetition in the fragmentary orators: from Cato to C. Gracchus
Christa Gray;
19. Greek influences on Cato's Latin Neil O'Sullivan;
20. Some
syntactic features of Latin legal texts Olga Spevak; Part III. Reception:
21.
Lucretius and early Latin Barnaby Taylor;
22. Cicero and early dramatic Latin
Gesine Manuwald;
23. Early Latin texts in Livy John Briscoe;
24. Pliny
rewrites Cato Cynthia Damon;
25. Gellius' appreciation and understanding of
early Latin Leofranc Holford-Strevens;
26. Views on early Latin in
grammatical texts Alessandro Garcea;
27. Nonius Marcellus and the shape of
early Latin Jarrett Welsh;
28. Early Latin to Neo-Latin: Festus and Scaliger
Anna Chahoud; Conclusions:
29. Early Latin as a Concept James Adams.
J. N. Aadams CBE, FBA was the author of many books and articles on the Latin language, including The Latin Sexual Vocabulary (1982) and Bilingualism and the Latin Language (2003). He was awarded the Kenyon Medal of the British Academy in 2009. Anna Chahoud, FTCD is Professor of Latin at Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of C. Lucili Reliquiarum Concordantiae (1998) and various articles on Republican Latin and on the grammatical tradition, and has co-edited, with E. Dickey, Colloquial and Literary Latin (Cambridge, 2010). G. Pezzini is Fellow and Tutor in Latin at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has published extensively on early Latin language and literature, Roman comedy, ancient philosophy of language and fiction theory, including Terence and the Verb to-be in Latin (2015) and a forthcoming commentary on Terence's Heautontimorumenos.
