READING THE OCTOPUS: AUTHORSHIP, INTERTEXTS, AND A HELLENISTIC ANECDOTE (MACHON FR. 9 GOW)
READING THE OCTOPUS: AUTHORSHIP, INTERTEXTS, AND A HELLENISTIC ANECDOTE (MACHON FR. 9 GOW)
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Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press
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As oral, unowned and unfixed bits of narrative, anecdotes are unlikely candidates for being read intertextually. Yet the Hellenistic poet Machon’s chreiae offer an ideal place to challenge this assumption. A case study shows how a chreia can productively be read in two ways: one, the formal approach, considers the fragment (9 Gow) as a fixed text,...
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READING THE OCTOPUS: AUTHORSHIP, INTERTEXTS, AND A HELLENISTIC ANECDOTE (MACHON FR. 9 GOW)
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1399039555
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1399039555
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0002-9475,1086-3168
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1086-3168
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10.1353/ajp.2013.0009
