Table of Contents

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.

Promotional Information

This fascinating 1998 book examines how the poets of classical Rome found artistic inspiration in the words and themes of their poetic predecessors.

Reviews

'Allusion and Intertext is a happy conjunction of a fascinating subject and the ideal author to treat it.' The Times Literary Supplement 'Like the other volumes in the series, Hinds' Allusion and Intertext and Feeney's Literature and Religion at Rome are well written and well edited brief introductions to a significant area of scholarly research in Latin literature, designed simultaneously to incorporate and explain recent scholarship in the field and to serve as a protreptic to others.' Phoenix