Latin Forms of Address: From Plautus to Apuleius

by Eleanor Dickey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199239053
• ISBN13: 9780199239054
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"