Quasi labor intus
Subtitle: ambiguity in Latin literature : papers in honor of Reginald Thomas Foster, OCD
By: editors, Michael Fontaine, Charles J. McNamara, William Michael Short
Publisher: Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, Inc.
Published: 2018
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781732475014
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Latin literature; History and criticism; Ambiguity in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The spatial metaphorics of ambiguity in Roman culture; title: A cute illness in Epidaurus: eight sick jokes in Plautus' Gorgylio (Curculio); title: Indirect and off-record speech in Roman comedy: the case of the conditional request; title: Teleology and tyrannicide in Cicero's Brutus 331; title: Praeteritio and cooperative ambiguity; title: Dido's tears: a brief history of a sorrowful ambiguity; title: Vivas Hinc Ducere Voces: hearing Horace's Satires in his Ars Poetica; title: Coniecturalem Artem Esse Medicinam: ambiguity and uncertainty in disease diagnosis and treatment in Celsus' De Medicina; title: Purveying rhetoric: Quintilian Insti(tu)tor; title: The ethics of ambiguity in Quintilian; title: Peter Damian and the language of friendship: the Polysemy of Caritas; title: The ever-ending story: the role of ambiguity in supplements to the Aeneid; title: Ambiguity in Erasmus' Echo.