Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece Kelly Spelman Hardback

Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece\n\nProvides the first step-by-step study of how allusive poetics developed in the early Greek world.\n\nAdrian Kelly (Edited by), Henry Spelman (Edited by)\n\n9781108840118, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 21 November 2024\n\n362 pages\n25.1 x 17.7 x 2.5 cm, 0.79 kg\n\nEncompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world. Recent decades have seen a marked rise in intertextual approaches to early Greek literature; as scholars increasingly agree on the need to read these texts in a comparative way, this only makes all the more urgent the question of how best to do so. This volume brings together divergent scholarly voices to explore the state of the field and to point the way forward. All twelve chapters address themselves to a core set of fundamental questio]