Stealing the Club from Hercules
Conte, Gian Biagio![Stealing the Club from Hercules](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/423/42382370/CHSBZCOP0342382370.jpg)
In the first part of this volume on the literary technique of imitation, the author analyses Virgil's working over the text of Homer which paradoxically represents a true act of artistic originality. In the second chapter, the author reconstructs the presuppositions of a method and explores at the same time its limitations.