Zusammenfassung This fascinating 1998 book examines how the poets of classical Rome found artistic inspiration in the words and themes of their poetic predecessors. It combines traditional classical approaches with modern literary-theoretical devices.

Inhalt

Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Reflexivity: allusion and self-annotation; 2. Interpretability: beyond philological fundamentalism; 3. Diachrony: literary history and its narratives; 4. Repetition and change; 5. Tradition and self-fashioning; Bibliography; Index.