CLASPHIL 239. Intertextuality and Reception from Alexandria to Rome and Beyond

Th 3–5
Boylston 237

Exploration of the pragmatics of the intertextual relationship of Hellenistic poetry to the prior Greek tradition, and of republican, Augustan, and imperial Roman poets' further complicating of and building on this practice. Particular attention to the effect of intertextuality on genre and genre formation. How is intertextuality to be situated within the field of reception studies or the classical tradition? What, if any, are or should be the limitations of reception studies within the field of classical philology?