The Rhetoric of Imitation: Genre and Poetic Memory in Virgil and Other Latin Poets

accept action Aeneas Aeneid allows allusion already appears artistic awareness becomes called character choice classical considered contrast created critical cultural death defined dialectic direct discourse Eclogue effect elegiac elements epic example existence expectations expression fact Fate figure function Gallus genre Georgics give given hand hero Homer ideological important individual interpretation involves language Latin least leave less linguistic literary literature meaning memory narrative nature norm noted objective once opening opposition original Ovid past Persius poem poet poet's poetic poetry point of view possible present reader reality recall refer reflection relation relationship rhetorical Roman seems seen sense Servius signifier single situation specific story structure studies style subjective suffering textual tion tradition truth values verse Virgil whole wish