What's in a Name?: The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781905125098)

Joan Booth is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Leiden University in The Netherlands. She was formerly Reader in Classics at the University of Wales, Swansea, and is author of A Commentary on Ovid, Amores II. Robert Maltby is Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Leeds. He graduated from Cambridge and worked on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich and at the Department of Classics in Sheffield before moving to Leeds in 1989. His main publications are A Selection of Latin Love Elegy (Bristol 1980), A Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies (Leeds 1991) and Tibullus: Elegies, Text, Introduction and Commentary (Cambridge 2002). His research interests include Roman Comedy and Elegy and ancient etymological and linguistic theory.