Looking edgeways: Pursuring acrostics in Ovid and Vergil
What follows is an experiment in reading practice. I propose that we read some key passages of the Aeneid and the Metamorphoses in the active pursuit of acrostics and telestics, just as we have been accustomed to read them in the active pursuit of allusions and intertexts; and that we do so with the...
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Cambridge University Press
2019
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