Homer's allusive art / Bruno Currie.

Author
Currie, Bruno [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
  • ©2016
Description
xiii, 343 pages ; 24 cm

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    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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-308) and indexes.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780198768821 ((hardback))
    • 0198768826 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2016934367
    OCLC
    939703513
    Other standard number
    • 99970802500
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