Lucretius and the Transpadanes. - ADAMS HOLLAND, Louise,
KORTE INHOUD
'Little is known about Lucretius beyond the fact that he lived in the first half of the first century B.C. and dedicated his 'De Rerum Natura' to a certain Memmius. The general tone of the poem and certain details of its content have led most commentators to conclude that its author was probably a Roman of aristocratic birth. This view has now been challenged by Louise Holland, whose book advances new arguments, based mainly on considerations of style and prosody, to suggest that Lucretius came from the same Transpadane area of Northern Italy as Catullus and Vergil. The book begins by considering the evidence for regional differences in the pronunciation of late Republican Latin and relies mainly on comments in Cicero's rhetorical works. (...) The main thesis of the first half of the book (chapters 1-3) is that Lucretius's use of elision reflects Northern rather than Roman practice. (...) Holland's sensitive discussion of the sound-effects in a number of individual passages is of great value in dispelling onc...
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Princeton, 1979. IX,158p. Original off white cloth with dust wrps. Nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: ADAMS HOLLAND, Louise,] [Uitgever: Princeton University Press] [Jaar: 1979] [Titel: Lucretius and the Transpadanes.]
