The Rhetoric of Imitation
Subtitle: Genre and Poetic Memory in Virgil and Other Latin Poets (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology)
Contributors: Charles Segal (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: November 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801483592
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Works by individual poets: classical, early & medieval; Latin Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Latin; Literature: Classics; Roman Literature
First sentence: The work of tracing "loci similes," passages in one author which recall those in another, is the bread and butter of traditional classical literary study.