Modelli latini per poeti greci? Sulla possibile influenza di autori latini sulla poesia epica tardoantica
The chapter deals with the knowledge and use of Latin models by Greek poets of the III-VI centuries AD (, focusing on some methodological aspects of the question. Closer examination of the passages of Greek poets, where imitations and allusions to Latin poets (especially Virgil and Ovid) have been recurrently suggested by modern scholars, turns out to be inconclusive, and in many cases seems to be more reasonable to come back to the old theory of the ‘lost Hellenistic common model’.