0.4 Latin meter

Edited by Kenneth Haynes, Brown University (Kenneth_Haynes@Brown.edu)

The bibliography offers a selection of works on several topics in Latin meter. More comprehensive bibliographies are listed at the end. The general principles behind this selection are to include, for the most part, works from the last fifty years only (that is, published after 1960); to list around a half-dozen items for each topic; to scant technical or highly specialized discussions on the one hand and more general literary-critical ones on the other; and, with a few exceptions, to avoid referring to books and commentaries on individual poets.

Overviews (books)

Boldrini, Sandro. La prosodia e la metrica dei Romani . Rome. 1992. (German translation: 1999.)

Crusius, Friedrich. Römische Metrik: Eine Einführung. Revised by Hans Rubenbauer. Munich. 1955.

Drexler, Hans. Einführung in die römische Metrik . Darmstadt. 1967. 

Halporn, James, Martin Ostwald, and T. G. Rosenmeyer. The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry . 2nd edn. Norman. 1980. 

Hardie, William Ross. Res Metrica: An Introduction to the Study of Greek and Roman Versification . Oxford. 1920.

Morgan, Llewelyn. Musa Pedestris: Metre and Meaning in Roman Verse . Oxford. 2010. (Chapters on hendecasyllabics, iambics, sapphics, and dactylic hexameter.)

Raven, D. S. Latin Metre : An Introduction . London. 1965. 

Overviews (chapters and brief articles)

Boldrini, Sandro. “Römische Metrik.” Pp. 357–384 of Fritz Graf, ed., Einleitung in die lateinische Philologie . Stuttgart. 1997. 

Cupaiuolo, Fabio. “Metrica latina d’età classica.” Pp. 563–594 in Introduzione allo studio della cultura classica , vol. 2: Linguistica e filologia . Milan. 1973. 

Jocelyn, H. D. “metre, Latin.” Pp. 974–977 of the Oxford Classical Dictionary , ed. Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Oxford. 1996.

Leonhardt, Jürgen. “Metrik: VI. Lateinisch.” Pp. 123–129 of vol. 8 of Der Neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike , ed. Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider. 16 vols. Stuttgart. 1996–2003. (English translation: 2002–2010.)

Morgan, Llewelyn. “Metre.” Pp. 160–75 of The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies , ed. Alessandro Barchiesi and Walter Scheidel. Oxford. 2010.

Questa, Cesare. “Metrica latina arcaica.” Pp. 477–562 in Introduzione allo studio della cultura classica , vol. 2: Linguistica e filologia . Milan. 1973.

West, M. L. “Appendix: Latin Metre.” Pp. 186–90 of M. L. West, Greek Metre . Oxford. 1982. 

On prosody and scansion (see also overviews)

Allen, W. S. Vox Latina . Cambridge. 2nd edn. 1978. (Chapter 3 on vowel length, chapter 4 on vowel junction, chapter 5 on accent, and chapter 6 on quantity.)

Courtney, Edward. Musa Lapidaria: A Selection of Latin Verse Inscriptions . Atlanta. 1995. (Pp. 22–31 of the “Introduction” discusses meter and prosody.)

Hopkinson, Neil. “Juxtaposed Prosodic Variants in Greek and Latin Poetry.” Glotta 60 (1982) 3/4: 162–177.