Walter Charleton's The Ephesian Matron/Matrona Ephesia
Subtitle: contextual studies, bilingual edition and commentary
By: Nina Tomaszewski
Contributors: Charleton, Walter, 1620-1707; Charleton, Walter, 1620-1707
Series: Bochumer altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium -- Band 102; Bochumer altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium -- Bd. 102.
Publisher: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Trier
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9783868217483
Copyright date: 2018
Notes: Critical edition.

Revised thesis (doctoral) - Universität, Bochum, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.

Original text in Latin with parallel English translation; critical matter in English.
Table of contents: title: Contextual studies --; title: The widow of Ephesus through the ages --; title: Charleton's adaptation of the story --; title: The plot, structure --; title: Charleton and epicurus --; title: Charleton and Hobbes --; title: Charleton and the platonic ladies --; title: Charleton and misogyny, the women controversy --; title: Judging the matron --; title: Irony in the Ephesian Matron --; title: Evaluation --; title: Biographical sketch --; title: Early life and education --; title: Politics, (medical) career and intellectual development --; title: Private life and personal appearance --; title: Friends and patrons : Charleton's 'network' --; title: Last years and death --; title: Contemporary judgements --; title: Public criticism --; title: Public support --; title: Aspects of language and translation --; title: Charleton and the inkhorn controversy, translator's note --; title: The Latin translation --; title: Spelling and punctuation --; title: Vocabulary --; title: Morphology --; title: Syntax --; title: General observations --; title: Harris's syntax in relation to Charleton's --; title: Long or hypotactic sentences --; title: Syntactically parallel translations? --; title: Minor changes --; title: Participle constructions --; title: Passive and active voice --; title: Tense and mood --; title: Rendition of the sense --; title: Additions and omissions --; title: Changes --; title: Style and quality of the translation --; title: Literal or free? --; title: Rhetorical devices --; title: Erroneous translations --; title: Elegant translations --; title: Conclusion --; title: The publication of Charleton's text --; title: The Ephesian Matron's anonymity --; title: Charleton and the Cimmerian Matron --; title: The edition --; title: The extant editions --; title: Additional (lost) editions --; title: Reconstruction of the stemma --; title: Remarks on this edition --; title: Sigla --; title: Text --; title: Title page --; title: Letter, Epistola --; title: The Ephesian Matron, Matrona Ephesia --; title: Commentary --; title: Title page --; title: Letter, Epistola --; title: The Ephesian Matron, Matrona Ephesia -- -- Bibliography; title: Primary texts --; title: Charleton --; title: The Ephesian Matron --; title: Other printed works --; title: Other sources --; title: Secondary texts --; title: Abbreviations --; title: Bibliographical appendix : Charleton's (Latin) textual sources --; title: Juvenal --; title: Lucian --; title: Petronius --; title: Seneca.