Quintus of Smyrna’s 'Posthomerica' : : Writing Homer Under Rome /

Quintus of Smyrna’s 'Posthomerica' : : Writing Homer Under Rome / / ed. by Silvio Bär.

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Offers a literary and cultural-historical analysis of the PosthomericaConnects Quintus with a far wider range of ancient literature: historical, philosophical, dramatic, and rhetorical genres; and prosaic and poetic worksMoves away from the localized study of particular aspects of the poem to a join...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
MitwirkendeR:
Barbaresco, Katia,
Bremmer, Jan N.,
Bär, Silvio,
Bärtschi, Arnold,
Carvounis, Katerina,
Ferreccio, Alessia,
Goldhill, Simon,
Greensmith, Emma,
Gärtner, Thomas,
Lovato, Valeria F.,
Maciver, Calum A.,
Maly-Preuss, Jordan,
Middleton, Fran,
Ozbek, Leyla,
Renker, Stephan,
Scafoglio, Giampiero,
Scheijnen, Tine,
Schoess, A. Sophie,
Tomasso, Vincent,
HerausgeberIn:
Bär, Silvio,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations 5 B/W tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • 1. Introduction: Going to Rome, Returning to Troy
  • Part I: Contexts and Poetics
  • 2. Temporality and Temper: Time, Narrative and Heroism in Quintus of Smyrna
  • 3. Poetry, Performance and Quintus’ Posthomerica
  • 4. A-Sexual Epic? Consummation and Closure in the Posthomerica
  • 5. Images of Life and Death: Visualising the Heroic Body in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica
  • Part II: Religion, Gods and Destiny
  • 6. A Non-Homeric Fate in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica? Representation, Function, Problems
  • 7. Disempowering the Gods
  • 8. Animal and Human Sacrifice in Quintus of Smyrna
  • Part III: Between Narratology and Lexicology
  • 9. A Narratological Study of the Role of the Fates in the Posthomerica
  • 10. Wielding Words: Neoptolemus as a Speaker of Words in Quintus’ Posthomerica
  • 11. Stepping out of Place: σχέτλιος in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
  • 12. Renewing Homer with Homer: The Use of Epithets in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
  • 13. Polychronic Intertextuality in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
  • Part IV: The Struggle with the Literary Past
  • 14. The Dissolution of Troy: Homeric Narratology in the Posthomerica
  • 15. ‘Why So Serious?’ The Ambivalence of Joy and Laughter in the Iliad, Odyssey and Posthomerica
  • 16. Reshaping the Nature of Heroes: Heracles, Philoctetes and the Bow in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica
  • 17. Quintus and the Epic Cycle
  • Part V: Re-Readings and Re-Workings
  • 18. Philological Editor and Protestant Pedagogue: How Lorenz Rhodoman (1545‒1606) Worked on the Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus
  • 19. Too Homeric to Be True: John Tzetzes’ Reception of Quintus of Smyrna and the Importance of Plausibility
  • 20. A Postmodern Quintus? Theories of Fan Fiction and the Posthomerica
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Passages Cited
  • General Index

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