Personal Names in Theocritus
A Form of arte allusiva
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9336468 |
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| Authors | Styliani Hatzikosta (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 01 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tyche (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1010-9161 • E-ISSN: 2409-5540 |
| Publisher | Verlag Holzhausen (Austria) (PUBLISHER • AT) |
| DOI | 10.15661/tyche.2008.023.03 |
| OpenAlex | W2460288598 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The aim of this paper is to show that onomastic evidence as the chief tool of prosopography in ancient history can be extended to poetry to reveal various aspects of life, literature and history . Theocritus' poems are full of characters whose multifarious personalities the poet alludes to chiefly through diction
Art · Diction · History of literature · Literature · Personality · Personality psychology · Poetry · Prosopography · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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