Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Word Order and Expressiveness in the Aeneid Book 121 (Hardcover)

When can word order be considered expressive? And what we do mean by expressiveness ? This work based upon a statistical and stylistical enquiry into Virgil s Aeneid as well of other hexametric poetry aims to answer these questions from an appropriate perspective. Through offering a detailed analysis of selected passages the author stresses the evident recurrence of the same figures in similar contexts and with the same stylistic effects. In this view a rare word order as well as a relevant metrical and syntactical pattern appear to constitute a deviation from the norm stylistically motivated that can highlight significant words or iconically stress the semantics of a passage. By combining the main notes on style from the Aeneid commentaries and the stylistic readings also applied to modern texts the author with a clear approach systematically discusses the various structures of Latin hexameter - enjambement synaloepha hiatus four-word lines name-lines relevant juxtapositions etc. - in terms of effects showing how they interact and converge in the text. This introduction to Virgil s expressiveness aims to be an effective tool for a stylistic reading of any Latin hexametric text.