L. Lulli, Allusive Modes and Intertextualities in Archaic and Classical Greek Epic and Elegy. Some Case Studies, «Seminari Romani di Cultura Greca» n.s. 13 (2024), pp. 7-25.

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’.