Poetic memory : allusion in the poetry of Callimachus and the Metamorphoses of Ovid / by Heather Van Tress.

This study of Callimachus' and Ovid's allusive practice offers a unique view of the application of one theory of allusion (based upon that of Conte, but subsequently expanded upon) to a Greek and Latin poet.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tress, Heather van, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Latin
Ancient Greek
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 258.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Chapter One. Callimachus, Ovid, and Allusion; Chapter Two. A Well-Defined Scope: Lexical Integrative and Reflective Allusions in the Prologue of Callimachus' Aetia and the Proem of Ovid's Metamorphoses; Chapter Three. Broadening the Scope: Marking the Allusion and Reiterative Integrative and Reflective Allusion; Chapter Four. Variation of the Trope: Reflective and Integrative Allusion and Authorization within Callimachus' Hymn to Delos and Ovid's Book 6 of the Metamorphoses; Chapter Five. Boundaries of Genre? Allusion and Genre; Chapter Six. Conclusion; Bibliography.