Homer's Allusive Art
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780198768821
Subjects: Latin poetry, history and criticism
Description: 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.