Metaquotation: Homer and the Emperor
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Abstract For the emperor, quoting Homer was both a danger and an opportunity. Suetonius’ Lives shows that anecdotes of quotation circulated widely to characterise emperor for good or ill. Subsequently, these moments could themselves become subject allusion. If you quote line famously quoted by are poet Caesar? This phenomenon, whereby poetic cliché be reborn as charged reference prior use tag well-known figure, might termed metaquotation. ambiguity exploited throughout Seneca's Apocolocyntosis , in turn readers text antiquity.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Roman Studies
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['0075-4358', '1753-528X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000321