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Stealing the club from Hercules: on imitation in Latin poetry

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In the first part of this volume on the literary technique of imitation, the author analyses Virgil's working over the text of Homer which paradoxically represents a true act of artistic originality.

In the second chapter, the author reconstructs the presuppositions of a method and explores at the same time its limitations.

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De Gruyter
3110475839 / 9783110475838
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
871.009
12/06/2017
Germany
English
35 pages
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