Lucretius and the Transpadanes

ISBN: 9780691603100 出版年：2015 页码：168 Holland, Louise Adams Princeton University Press

In the absence of tape recordings from antiquity, we have a limited knowledge of how classical latin prose or verse sounded as it was rendered orally. Yet we do know that the spoken word varied greatly from place to place, regardless of how much uniformity the written language maintained. Louise adams holland considers the geographical basis for these linguistic differences, and advances new arguments for the origin of lucretius. She shows that he came from the same area of northern italy--the transpadane--as catullus and virgil, not from rome, as the majority of his critics have contended. Originally published in 1979. The princeton legacy library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of princeton university press.