Title: Homer's allusive art /
Authors: Currie, Bruno,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Homer Allusions.; Allusions in literature.
Abstract: Homer's Allusive Art argues for a new understanding of Homeric allusion and its place in literary history through a series of interlocking case studies, exploring whether there can have been historical continuity in a poetics of allusion stretching from the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh through to the Aeneid and Metamorphoses.
Contents: Homer and allusive art -- The Homeric epics and their forerunners -- The archaic hymns to Demeter -- Pregnant tears and poetic memory -- Allusion in Greek and Near Eastern mythological poetry -- Epilogue : traditional art and allusive art.