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LATER GREEK EPIC AND THE LATIN LITERARY TRADITI...

The volume offers an innovative and systematic exploration of the diverse ways in which Later
Greek Epic interacts with the Latin literary tradition. Taking as a starting point the premise
that it is probable for the Greek epic poets of the Late Antiquity to have been familiar with
leading works of Latin poetry  either in the original or in translation  the contributions in
this book pursue a new form of intertextuality  in which the leading epic poets of the Imperial
era (Quintus of Smyrna  Triphiodorus  Nonnus  and the author of the Orphic Argonautica) engage
with a range of models in inventive  complex  and often covert ways. Instead of asking  in
other words  whether Greek authors used Latin models  we ask how they engaged with them and why
they opted for certain choices and not for others. Through sophisticated discussions  it
becomes clear that intertexts are usually systems that combine ideology  cultural traditions 
and literary aesthetics in an inextricable fashion. The book will prove that Latin literature 
far from being distinct from the Greek epic tradition of the imperial era  is an essential 
indeed defining  component within a common literary and ideological heritage across the Roman
empire.

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