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This book explores Callimachus' allusive practice in his Aetia prologue and Hymns 4, 5, and 6, and in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The study includes an overview of modern approaches to poetic allusion, a close (re-) examination of the lexical allusions in the Aetia's and Metamorphoses' prologues, extensive examinations of allusive techniques within selections of these works, the poets' use of "signposting" and "authorization" techniques, and the relationship between allusion and genre.Van Tress, Heather is the author of 'Poetic Memory Allusion in the Poetry of Callimachus and the Metamorphoses of Ovid', published 2004 under ISBN 9789004141575 and ISBN 900414157X.
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