... poetry to the politics and culture of Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Greece. It examines the importance of the tradition of the sack of Troy in connection with Argos, as well as the patterning of the past in the constructions of the present. It also discusses the hypothesis that there was an elegiac...

... of the sack of Troy in book 2 of the Aeneid, where the standard vertical codes are deliberately criss-crossed in order to produce strong effects of helplessness and pathos, as well as to figure the events taking place as flipped versions of things remembered from Homer. Diomedes Feeney Denis...