Allusion, authority, and truth : critical perspectives on Greek poetic and rhetorical praxis

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Allusion, authority, and truth : critical perspectives on Greek poetic and rhetorical praxis

edited by Phillip Mitsis, Christos Tsagalis

(Trends in classics : supplementary volumes, v. 7)

De Gruyter, c2010

  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Questions about how ancient Greek texts establish their authority, reflect on each other, and project their own truths have become central for a wide range of recent critical discourses. In this volume, an influential group of international scholars examines these themes in a variety of poetic and rhetorical genres. The result is a series of striking and original readings from different critical perspectives that display the centrality of these questions for understanding the poetic and rhetorical aims of ancient Greek texts. Characterized by a combination of close attention to philological detail and theoretical sophistication, the essays in this volume make a compelling case for this kind of focused, critically informed dialogue about the nature of ancient textual praxis. Students of classical literature will find a wealth of critical insights and challenging new readings of many familiar texts.

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