Title: Homer's Allusive Art
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.
Subjects: Latin poetry, history and criticism, Allusions, Allusions in literature