Title Greek to Latin : frameworks and contexts for intertextuality / G.O. Hutchinson

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 438 pages) Contents Making histories -- Strife and change -- Rome, villas, South Italy -- Sicily, Athens, rest of Greek mainland, Rhodes -- Asia, Massilia, Alexandria -- Two languages -- Transposition and triads -- Styles and settings -- Trunk and branches -- The landscape of prose -- The grounds of prose -- The grounds of hexameter poetry -- Space and intertextuality in hexameters -- Hexameters : history and internal mixture Summary The relationship between Latin and Greek literature is one of the most fundamental questions for Latin literature, and for those who study the reception of ancient Greek, and this innovative volume shows some of the contexts in which the interaction of the literatures should be viewed. Hutchinson investigates Roman conceptions of their own literary history and Greek literary history as two chronological sequences, artificially separated, and takes the reader around the Mediterranean to see the different places where Romans encountered Greek art with words. The volume looks at Roman perceptions of the contrasting Greek and Latin languages and compares in detail Latin adaptation of Greek writing with Latin adaptation of Latin, and views the different approaches to Greek material, ideas, and works between three prose 'super-genres', and within the poetic 'super-genre' of hexameters. Based on an independent collection of evidence, it draws extensively on inscriptions, archaeology, papyri, scholia, and little-known texts Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 5, 2013) Subject Latin literature -- History and criticism Latin literature -- Greek influences Greek literature, Hellenistic -- Appreciation -- Rome Greek literature -- Appreciation -- Rome Intertextuality. Greek literature -- Appreciation Greek literature, Hellenistic -- Appreciation Intertextuality Latin literature Latin literature -- Greek influences Latein Griechisch Literatur Rome (Empire) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191757020 0191757020 9780191649721 0191649724

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