March 15
Topic: Intertextuality of the Dido Episode
Readings:
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Aeneid 6.384-547
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G. N. Knauer, "Aeneis 6 und l," Die Aeneis und Homer: Studien zur poetischen
Technik Vergils mit Listen der Homerzitate in der Aeneis. (Gsttingen
1964) ch. 2, pp. 107-145.
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James Tatum, "Allusion and Interpretation in Aeneid 6.440-76," American
Journal of Philology 105 (1984) 434-452.
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Gian Biagio Conte, "Foreword" (by Charles Segal), "Introduction: The Art
of Allusion and Models in Literature," and "Poetic Memory and the Art of
Allusion" (ch. 1) inThe Rhetoric of Imitation: Genre and Poetic Memory
in Virgil and Other Latin Poets (Ithaca 1986), pp. 7-39.
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Jeffrey Wills, "Divided Allusion: Virgil and the Coma Berenices,"
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 98 (1998) 277-305.