Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world. Recent decades have seen a marked rise in intertextual approaches to early Greek literature; as scholars increasingly agree on the need to read these texts in a comparative way, this only makes all the more urgent the question of how best to do so. This volume brings together divergent scholarly voices to explore the state of the field and to point the way forward. All twelve chapters address themselves to a core set of fundamental questions: how do texts generate meaning by referring to other texts and how do the poetics of allusivity change over time and differ across genres? The result is a holistic study of a key dimension of literary experience.
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Introduction Adrian Kelly and Henry Spelman; Part I. Early Intertextuality: 1. From the Odyssey to the Iliad, and round (and round) again Adrian Kelly; 2. The wisdom of Archilochus: Didactic Intertexts in early Greek poetry Laura Swift; 3. Intertextual effects in early epigram Oliver Thomas; Part II. Lyric and Epic: 4. Sappho's intertextual geographies Barbara Graziosi; 5. Invoking Homer: the Catalogue of Ships and the early reception of the Iliad Henry Spelman; 6. Pindar, Bacchylides, Archaic Epic and Intertextuality Andrew Morrison; Part ΙΙΙ. Drama: 7. Intertextuality, 'cf.' and fragmentary drama Matthew Wright; 8. Satyr drama and the limits of the possible: Sophocles' Judgement and the Cypria Lyndsay Coo; 9. A cave with two doors Richard Hunter and Rebecca Lämmle; Part ΙV. Conceptual Contexts: 10. Talk and text: the pre-Alexandrian footnote from Homer to Theodectes Thomas Nelson; 11. How, and why, the Athenians painted different myths at different times Robin Osborne; 12. Framing intertextuality in early Greek prose Ilaria Andolfi.
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Provides the first step-by-step study of how allusive poetics developed in the early Greek world.
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9781108840118
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2024-11-21
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Cambridge University Press
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G, 01
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Engelsk
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362