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Latin Forms of Address - From Plautus to Apuleius (Paperback)
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Latin Forms of Address - From Plautus to Apuleius (Paperback)
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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
in sociolinguistics. 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 all active 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.
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