Greek literature

Non-finito o estetica dell’incompiuto? Casi dalla letteratura greca della tarda antichità

This paper deals with the theme of the “unfinished” through the examination of some exemplary cases from
Greek literature in Late Antiquity. Alongside authorial practices impatient with the labor limae – such as
that of Damascius or Plotinus – or texts that now appear unfinished because of troubles in the manuscript
transmission, there are cases of incomplete texts that have been brought to perfection by other authors,
such as the Homeric Centos by Patricius completed by Eudocia, or the intercultural translation into epic

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