How To Be Listened To Once Again: Intertextual Mechanisms in the Pseudo-Hesiodic Scutum

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  • Guillermo D. Vissani

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34096/afc.v2i28.3962

Keywords:

Scutum, Aspis, Pseudo-Hesiod, ékphrasis, intertextuality

Abstract

Besides the fact that it is a poor imitation of the Shield of Achilles, the Pseudo- Hesiodic Scutum has not received a great deal of attention among classical philologists. However, these considerations do not explain why the Scutum had reached a high level of popularity by the time it was supposedly composed. This shows us that the poem was not considered by the artistic elites as a mere imitation of the Homeric hypotext. In this paper we propose to read the poem from a perspective that takes into account the reference to the hypotext as a conscious strategy of literary self-legitimation. 

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How To Be Listened To Once Again: Intertextual Mechanisms in the Pseudo-Hesiodic Scutum. (2017). Anales De Filología Clásica, 2(28), 121-132. https://doi.org/10.34096/afc.v2i28.3962