Talk and text: the pre-Alexandrian footnote from Homer to Theodectes
How much continuity was there in the allusive practices of the ancient world? I explore this question here by considering the early Greek precedent for the so-called ‘Alexandrian footnote’, a device often regarded as one of the most learned and bookish in a Roman poet’s allusive arsenal. Ever since...
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Cambridge University Press
2024
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