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  • Chapter 3 - Allusion and Referentiality in Late Antique Epic

  • from Part 1 - A ‘Late’ Perspective on the Literary Tradition
  • Edited by Berenice Verhelst, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Tine Scheijnen, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
  • Book:
    Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity
    Published online:
    16 June 2022
    Print publication:
    30 June 2022, pp 51-68

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses modern trends in the study of late antique Latin poetry, namely the aesthetics of the jeweled style and especially the scholarly discourse on ‘nonreferentiality’ in allusion, and seeks to apply the concepts underlying this scholarship to late antique Greek epic, in particular to Triphiodorus and Quintus of Smyrna. As a case study and the focus of the chapter, allusions to Apollonius’ Argonautica, previously noted but undiscussed in scholarship on Triphiodorus, are discussed at length. The chapter ends with a re-examination of the in-proem in Book 12 of Quintus’ Posthomerica, and argues, in a nuancing of recent scholarship, that the passage’s much-discussed allusion to Callimachus can be read as ultimately ‘nonreferential’ in function.