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Etymology and Identity in the Appendix Tibulliana
Maltby, Robert
2021
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e-ISSN
2464-8760
Abstract
The paper investigates the use of etymologising in the Appendix Tibulliana and concludes that its purpose to link the probably late first-century AD author of this work with the great elegists of an earlier generation, namely Propertius, Ovid and, in particular, Tibullus. This etymologising takes place at the level both of common nouns and of proper names, with plays on the fictitious character names Lygdamus, Neaera and Cerinthus. In both cases the practice is firmly anchored in the literary techniques of Tibullus and the other elegists. The manipulation of earlier elegiac etymologising and of the previous literary identities of these character names provides the whole work with a structural unity and a specific chronological focus, and so lends weight to arguments for a single unitary author.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Robert Maltby, "Etymology and Identity in the Appendix Tibulliana", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2021, pp. 201-225.
Languages
it
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internazionale
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