Allusive Modes and Intertextualities in Archaic and Classical Greek Epic and Elegy. Some Case Studies,

Among the archaic and classical Greek literary genres, epic and elegy always seem to share many characteristics both from a formal and from a thematic point of view. In order to better highlight this articulated and multi-layered relationship, it can be useful to apply the lens of intertextuality to a reading of significant passages of epic and elegiac poetry. In fact, the interpretative tool of the intertextuality – alrea- dy known in ancient scholarship and recently reused by some of the most advanced contemporary critics – can be considered, within the framework of the various ori- ginal communicative systems, as a flexible phenomenon that tends to undergo both synchronic and diachronic developments, and, as such, can provide the instruments for revealing interconnections between texts of epic and elegiac poetry, both well- transmitted and ‘submerged’.