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Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world. Recent decades have seen a marked rise in intertextual approaches to early Greek literature; as scholars increasingly agree on the need to read these texts in a comparative way, this only makes all the more urgent the question of how best to do so. This volume brings together divergent scholarly voices to explore the state of the field and to point the way forward. All twelve chapters address themselves to a core set of fundamental questions: how do texts generate meaning by referring to other texts and how do the poetics of allusivity change over time and differ across genres? The result is a holistic study of a key dimension of literary experience.

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Adrian Kelly is Tutorial Fellow in Ancient Greek at Balliol College, and an Associate Professor and Clarendon University Lecturer at the University of Oxford. He has recently edited (with Patrick Finglass) The Cambridge Companion to Sappho (Cambridge, 2021), (with Christopher Metcalf) Gods and Mortals in early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology (Cambridge, 2021), and (with Bill Beck, Thomas Phillips, and Oliver Thomas) The Ancient Scholia to Homer's Iliad: A Translation. Volume I: Introduction and Books 1–2 (Cambridge, 2024). He is completing a commentary on Homer, Iliad XXIII for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series. Henry Spelman is Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College. He is the author of Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence (2018) and is currently editing The Cambridge Companion to Pindar.

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