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Stealing the club from Hercules : on imitation in Latin poetry /

The author seeks to demonstrate in the first chapter (which analyzes Virgil's working over of the text of Homer) that "on the contrary, imitation very often is the actual path of originality, the condition thanks to which it is brought into being--at least in the classical literatures, and...

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Main Author:	Conte, Gian Biagio, 1941- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2017]
Subjects:	Virgil Iliad (Homer) Imitation in literature. Latin poetry > History and criticism. Imitation (Littérature) Poésie latine > Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. Latin poetry Classical literature Imitation in literature Literary style Classics Aeneas Aeneid Homer Intertextuality Philology Structuralism Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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