ENGLISH

Allusion, Authority, and Truth: Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis

By Phillip Mitsis , Christos Tsagalis

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2010
ISBN
3110245396, 9783110245394
ISSN
1868-4785
Google Books ID
gpLXSXnkl78C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2457799 bytes)
Series
Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 7
Pages
viii+460\469
Topic
Literature
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-04-14 19:06:57

Description

The past few decades have seen the development of new critical methods with which the poetic and rhetorical dimensions of ancient Greek texts can be evaluated. In this volume, an international group of distinguished scholars comes together to examine how a wide range of ancient texts in different genres were able to assert their authority and claims to truth, often alluding to one another in subtle ways as they attempted to project their own superiority. A series of illuminating new readings is offered of both particular passages and whole works in the light of these new critical advances.

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