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Virgil's Aeneid - Semantic Relations and Proper Names (Hardcover)
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Virgil's Aeneid - Semantic Relations and Proper Names (Hardcover)
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The capacity of proper names to condense concepts, descriptions, or
short narratives can tell us a lot about the Aeneid. But names only
'suggest' or 'evoke' meaning, which can be elicited and/or
understood properly only by viewing it in a reading of the epic as
a whole. Virgil's epic reveals recurrent semantic patterns, which
show that names are substituta ble semantic units. One way to
elicit their meaning is by exploring the semantic environment in
which they occur as well as related semantic environments elsewhere
in the narrative, and by examining the way names combine with
semantic units of transparent meaning. This study offers a complete
semantic analysis of the Aeneid by book, based on the discussion of
semantic components and semantic sequences, and using the
Laocoon-Horse sequence as a model. The analysis reveals a
sustained, pervasive, and deep-going exploitation of the meaning of
names. It yields new interpretations for every episode in the epic
and provides the semantic features of most major characters. It
sheds new light on the significance of Polydorus, the death of
Anchises at Drepanum, the Nisus and Euryalus relationship, and
Camilla's features in relation to the spearthrow of Metabus. It
shows the authenticity of the Helen episode, as well as the
significance of the catalogue of the of sinners in Tartarus, and of
the deaths of Pallas and Turnus.
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