Browsing Classical languages and literature by Subject "Intertextuality"
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Agonistic Intertextuality: Studies in Pindar and Bacchylides
This dissertation critiques the notion that the 5th century BCE praise poets Pindar of Thebes and Bacchylides of Ceos were natural adversaries. Both ancient and modern scholarship assumes a situation of competition between ... -
Mille simul leti facies: The Allusive Battlefield of Punica 4
This dissertation examines the two major battle scenes in book 4 of Silius Italicus’ Punica, Ticinus and Trebia, focusing on the poet’s intricate, purposeful, and programmatic use of inter- and intratextual allusion on the ...