Robert E Coleman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4519199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert E Coleman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert E |
| FAMILY NAME | Coleman |
| SIGNATURE | COLEMAN R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emmanuel College - Massachusetts |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1551-9871 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Vulgar Latin and the diversity of Christian Latin
Commentary
Latin prepositional syntax in Indo-European perspective
The Formation of Specialized Vocabularies in Philosophy, Grammar and Rhetoric
The Central Italic Languages in the Period of Roman Expansion1
The Gods in the Aeneid
The supernatural forces at work in Vergil's epic narrative are succinctly presented in the opening lines – ‘Italiam fato profugus Lauiniaque uenit | litora ... iactatus et alto | ui superum saeuae memorem Iunonis ob iram’: far more prominently too than in Homer. If the Stoic overtones that fatum carried in Augustan Latin were remote from the notion of a divine autocrat's arbitrary will, the wrath of Juno takes us back uncompromisingly to the Home…
Further Observations on Habeo + Infinitive as an Exponent of Futurity
In his interesting paper on babeo and aueo published in CQ 66 (1972), 388–98, Dr. A.S. Gratwick raised a number of questions bearing on my own discussion of the origin and development of the babeo +infinitive construction in CQ 65 (1971), 215–31. First the collapse of the earlier future-tense system. As I said, this was ‘the product of a number of different linguistic events’, phonetic, grammatical, and semantic, which were summarized and illustr…
Greek Influence on Latin Syntax
The Artful Moralist
All the extant letters of Seneca are addressed to a single correspondent, Lucilius. They are among the latest of his writings and are entirely taken up with the discussion of philosophical questions, principally to do with Ethics1—hence the title Epistulae Morales . The 115th letter could, one supposes, be taken to exemplify this particular kind of epistolary composition at its best. The objectof the following discussion is twofold: first by a de…
The Role of the Chorus in Sophocles' Antigone
This essay depends upon certain assumptions, which had better be made explicit at the outset. The first is that in Attic tragedy the choral odes were always intended to have an organic relation to the drama as a whole. They are not mere intermezzi inserted to relieve tension and allow the audience to relax between successive steps in the real business of the drama, but serve rather as lyrical commentaries on what is happening on the stage, inviti…
The Latin thematic genitive singular
The Origin and Development of Latin Habeo +Infinitive
It is well known that the future indicative and conditional (or future-in-thepast) paradigms of most Central and West Romance languages reflect a Latin infinitival construction with habeo , e.g. Italian canterd Although the development was essentially a Vulgar Latin one and so belongs to the subliterate register of the language, it is reflected now and again in the written material from the classical and post-classical periods. It is, therefore, …
Structure and Intention in the Metamorphoses
Ovid's great poem has held its place in the European artistic and literary tradition primarily as a collection of superbly told individual stories, in which successive generations have found inspiration and pleasure. But the poet himself clearly thought of it as something more than a series of detached narratives. In fact he describes it(i. 4) as perpetuum carmen . The object of the present essay is to inquire into the nature of this perpetuitas …
Mycenaean revisited
The Dream of Cicero
Before Angelo Mai's publication of the Vatican Palimpsest in 1822 the de Re Publica was known to modern scholars only from the tantalizing fragments and paraphrases scattered about in Late Latin authors, ranging in extent from the Somnium Scipionis , the famous definition of uera lex preserved by Lactantius and the portion of Cicero's preface to Book v quoted by St Augustine to the incomplete sentences gleaned from Nonius, Priscian, and Isidore. …
The Dialect Geography of Ancient Greece
Two Linguistic Topics in Quintilian
( Proposed text ) Atque etiam in ipsis uocalibus grammatici est uidere an ahquas pro consonantibus usus acceperit, quia ‘iam’ sicut ‘tarn’ scribitur et ‘uos’ ut ‘cos’, at quae ut uocales iunguntur aut unam longam faciunt, ut ueteres scri-pserunt, qui geminatione earum uelut apice utebantur, aut duas,—nisi quis putat etiam ex tribus uocalibus syllabam fieri, si non aliquae officio consonantium fungantur. quaeret hoc etiam, quo modo duabus demum uo…
Gallus, the Bucolics, and the Ending of the Fourth Georgic
Cicero De Natvra Deorvm I65 and the Stoic Criticism of the Atomic Theory
Abuteris ad omnia atomorum regno et licentia; hinc quodcumque in solum uenit, ut dicitur, effing?s atque efficis. Quae primum nullae sunt. Nihil est enim quod uacet corpore, corporibus autem omnis obsidetur locus; ita nullum inane, nihil esse indiuiduum potest. Haec ego nunc physicorum oracula fundo, uera an falsa nescio, sed ueri tarnen similiora quam uestra. There are two difficulties in the received text of this paragraph : primum seems to hav…
Gallus, the Bucolics, and the Ending of the Fourth Georgic
Structure and Intention in the Metamorphoses
Ovid's great poem has held its place in the European artistic and literary tradition primarily as a collection of superbly told individual stories, in which successive generations have found inspiration and pleasure. But the poet himself clearly thought of it as something more than a series of detached narratives. In fact he describes it(i. 4) as perpetuum carmen . The object of the present essay is to inquire into the nature of this perpetuitas …
The Artful Moralist
All the extant letters of Seneca are addressed to a single correspondent, Lucilius. They are among the latest of his writings and are entirely taken up with the discussion of philosophical questions, principally to do with Ethics1—hence the title Epistulae Morales . The 115th letter could, one supposes, be taken to exemplify this particular kind of epistolary composition at its best. The objectof the following discussion is twofold: first by a de…
The Role of the Chorus in Sophocles' Antigone
This essay depends upon certain assumptions, which had better be made explicit at the outset. The first is that in Attic tragedy the choral odes were always intended to have an organic relation to the drama as a whole. They are not mere intermezzi inserted to relieve tension and allow the audience to relax between successive steps in the real business of the drama, but serve rather as lyrical commentaries on what is happening on the stage, inviti…
The Origin and Development of Latin Habeo +Infinitive
It is well known that the future indicative and conditional (or future-in-thepast) paradigms of most Central and West Romance languages reflect a Latin infinitival construction with habeo , e.g. Italian canterd Although the development was essentially a Vulgar Latin one and so belongs to the subliterate register of the language, it is reflected now and again in the written material from the classical and post-classical periods. It is, therefore, …
Two Linguistic Topics in Quintilian
( Proposed text ) Atque etiam in ipsis uocalibus grammatici est uidere an ahquas pro consonantibus usus acceperit, quia ‘iam’ sicut ‘tarn’ scribitur et ‘uos’ ut ‘cos’, at quae ut uocales iunguntur aut unam longam faciunt, ut ueteres scri-pserunt, qui geminatione earum uelut apice utebantur, aut duas,—nisi quis putat etiam ex tribus uocalibus syllabam fieri, si non aliquae officio consonantium fungantur. quaeret hoc etiam, quo modo duabus demum uo…
Cicero De Natvra Deorvm I65 and the Stoic Criticism of the Atomic Theory
Abuteris ad omnia atomorum regno et licentia; hinc quodcumque in solum uenit, ut dicitur, effing?s atque efficis. Quae primum nullae sunt. Nihil est enim quod uacet corpore, corporibus autem omnis obsidetur locus; ita nullum inane, nihil esse indiuiduum potest. Haec ego nunc physicorum oracula fundo, uera an falsa nescio, sed ueri tarnen similiora quam uestra. There are two difficulties in the received text of this paragraph : primum seems to hav…
Gallus, the Bucolics, and the Ending of the Fourth Georgic
The Dialect Geography of Ancient Greece
Two Linguistic Topics in Quintilian
( Proposed text ) Atque etiam in ipsis uocalibus grammatici est uidere an ahquas pro consonantibus usus acceperit, quia ‘iam’ sicut ‘tarn’ scribitur et ‘uos’ ut ‘cos’, at quae ut uocales iunguntur aut unam longam faciunt, ut ueteres scri-pserunt, qui geminatione earum uelut apice utebantur, aut duas,—nisi quis putat etiam ex tribus uocalibus syllabam fieri, si non aliquae officio consonantium fungantur. quaeret hoc etiam, quo modo duabus demum uo…
The Dream of Cicero
Before Angelo Mai's publication of the Vatican Palimpsest in 1822 the de Re Publica was known to modern scholars only from the tantalizing fragments and paraphrases scattered about in Late Latin authors, ranging in extent from the Somnium Scipionis , the famous definition of uera lex preserved by Lactantius and the portion of Cicero's preface to Book v quoted by St Augustine to the incomplete sentences gleaned from Nonius, Priscian, and Isidore. …
Mycenaean revisited
The Origin and Development of Latin Habeo +Infinitive
It is well known that the future indicative and conditional (or future-in-thepast) paradigms of most Central and West Romance languages reflect a Latin infinitival construction with habeo , e.g. Italian canterd Although the development was essentially a Vulgar Latin one and so belongs to the subliterate register of the language, it is reflected now and again in the written material from the classical and post-classical periods. It is, therefore, …
Structure and Intention in the Metamorphoses
Ovid's great poem has held its place in the European artistic and literary tradition primarily as a collection of superbly told individual stories, in which successive generations have found inspiration and pleasure. But the poet himself clearly thought of it as something more than a series of detached narratives. In fact he describes it(i. 4) as perpetuum carmen . The object of the present essay is to inquire into the nature of this perpetuitas …
The Role of the Chorus in Sophocles' Antigone
This essay depends upon certain assumptions, which had better be made explicit at the outset. The first is that in Attic tragedy the choral odes were always intended to have an organic relation to the drama as a whole. They are not mere intermezzi inserted to relieve tension and allow the audience to relax between successive steps in the real business of the drama, but serve rather as lyrical commentaries on what is happening on the stage, inviti…
The Latin thematic genitive singular
The Artful Moralist
All the extant letters of Seneca are addressed to a single correspondent, Lucilius. They are among the latest of his writings and are entirely taken up with the discussion of philosophical questions, principally to do with Ethics1—hence the title Epistulae Morales . The 115th letter could, one supposes, be taken to exemplify this particular kind of epistolary composition at its best. The objectof the following discussion is twofold: first by a de…
Greek Influence on Latin Syntax
Further Observations on Habeo + Infinitive as an Exponent of Futurity
In his interesting paper on babeo and aueo published in CQ 66 (1972), 388–98, Dr. A.S. Gratwick raised a number of questions bearing on my own discussion of the origin and development of the babeo +infinitive construction in CQ 65 (1971), 215–31. First the collapse of the earlier future-tense system. As I said, this was ‘the product of a number of different linguistic events’, phonetic, grammatical, and semantic, which were summarized and illustr…
The Gods in the Aeneid
The supernatural forces at work in Vergil's epic narrative are succinctly presented in the opening lines – ‘Italiam fato profugus Lauiniaque uenit | litora ... iactatus et alto | ui superum saeuae memorem Iunonis ob iram’: far more prominently too than in Homer. If the Stoic overtones that fatum carried in Augustan Latin were remote from the notion of a divine autocrat's arbitrary will, the wrath of Juno takes us back uncompromisingly to the Home…
The Central Italic Languages in the Period of Roman Expansion1
The Formation of Specialized Vocabularies in Philosophy, Grammar and Rhetoric
Latin prepositional syntax in Indo-European perspective
Commentary
Vulgar Latin and the diversity of Christian Latin
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