Saying the other: the poetics of personification in late antique epic
This chapter treats allegory in the Posthomerica in light of late antique thinking on personification. Tracing Quintus’ deployment of the technique, it centres on the shield of Achilles, which contains the fullest personification allegory: the Mountain of Arete. Scholars have focused on the literary...
主要作者: | Greensmith, E |
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其他作者: | Verhelst, B |
格式: | Book section |
语言: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2022
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