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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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