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Description: A technical, literary-oriented string of letters from viewers commenting on puns in classical Latin works.
the atrium | golden threads | greek and roman literature | latin puns Does anybody know of anything decent on puns in Latin literature? Especially Vergil (yes, puns in Vergil). I cannot recall whether Virgil is included, but the most elaborate recent book I know on puns in Latin literature is Frederick Ahl, Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and other Classical Poets (Cornell Univ. Press, 1985). Personally, I was extremely sceptical of some of Ahl's assertions, and it is very hard to imagine that the Romans really created puns when one word had a short vowel and the other a long vowel.
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