Language and Authority in De Lingua Latina by Diana Spencer
Diana Spencer, known for her scholarly focus on how ancient Romans conceptualized themselves as a people and how they responded to and helped shape the world they lived in, brings her expertise to an examination of the Roman scholar Varro and his treatise De Lingua Latina.-
Oedipus Rex
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Flinders Petrie
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Hellenistic Sculpture V. 1; Styles of Ca. 331-200 B.C.
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Hellenistic Sculpture II
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The Game of Death in Ancient Rome
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Agamemnon
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Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art
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Religion in Ancient Etruria
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The Image of the Poet in Ovid's Metamorphoses
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Shaping Ceremony
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The Iconography of Sculptured Statue Bases in the Archaic and Classical Periods
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The Hellenistic Aesthetic
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Ctesias' Persica in Its Near Eastern Context
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Silenced Voices
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The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta
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Repeat Performances
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Echoing Hylas
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Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy
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The Athenian Adonia in Context
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Ctesias' Persica and Its Near Eastern Context
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Women in Roman Republican Drama
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Insults in Classical Athens
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Reset in Stone
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In the Flesh
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The Gods of the Greeks
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The Archaeology of the Olympics
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The Codrus Painter
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The Slave in Greece and Rome
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New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome
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Trojan Women, Helen, Hecuba
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Satire and the Threat of Speech in Horace's "Satires" Bk. 1
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Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture
Spencer takes on De Lingua Latina anew, and rather than mining it for late Republican thoughts on Latin and its etymologies, she views it as a kind of ‘guide' to Varro's Roman world, as told through a complex dance with that which the man loved most - his language"" - Sarah Culpepper Stroup, University of Washington
""Spencer’s work hooks Varro back into the dominant threads of Latin studies over the past couple of decades and in so doing fills in a major gap in our understanding of the intellectual life of the Late Republic."" - Erik Gunderson, University of Toronto
""Spencer’s work hooks Varro back into the dominant threads of Latin studies over the past couple of decades and in so doing fills in a major gap in our understanding of the intellectual life of the Late Republic."" - Erik Gunderson, University of Toronto
Diana Spencer is a professor of classics and the dean of Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences at the University of Birmingham (UK). Recent publications include contributions to The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Early Medieval Worlds and the Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement 39, Varro Varius: The Polymath of the Roman World.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780299323202 |
| ISBN 10 | 029932320X |
| Title | Language and Authority in De Lingua Latina |
| Author | Diana Spencer |
| Series | Wisconsin Studies In Classics |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Year published | 2019-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 424 |
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