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    Sophistic views of the epic past from the classical to the imperial age.Paola Bassino & Nicolò Benzi (eds.) - 2021 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    This collection of essays sheds new light on the relationship between two of the main drivers of intellectual discourse in ancient Greece: the epic tradition and the Sophists. The contributors show how throughout antiquity the epic tradition proved a flexible instrument to navigate new political, cultural, and philosophical contexts. The Sophists, both in the Classical and the Imperial age, continuously reconfigured the value of epic poetry according to the circumstances: using epic myths allowed the Sophists to present themselves as the (...)
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    Ready J.L. Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. ix + 323. £55/$90. 9780521190640. [REVIEW]Paola Bassino - 2013 - Journal of Hellenic Studies 133:159-159.
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