Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition : : Further Explorations / / ed. by Katerina Carvounis, Sophia Papaioannou, Giampiero Scafoglio.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bär, Silvio,; Carvounis, Katerina,; Greensmith, Emma,; Gärtner, Ursula,; Kersten, Markus,; Lovatt, Helen,; Papaioannou, Sophia,; Scafoglio, Giampiero,
• HerausgeberIn: Carvounis, Katerina,; Papaioannou, Sophia,; Scafoglio, Giampiero,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 136
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 216 p.)

The volume offers an innovative and systematic exploration of the diverse ways in which Later Greek Epic interacts with the Latin literary tradition. Taking as a starting point the premise that it is probable for the Greek epic poets of the Late Antiquity to have been familiar with leading works of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Preface: Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition
• Latin and Later Greek Literature: Reflections on Different Approaches
• The Poet as Sailor: Claudian between the Greek and Latin Traditions
• Sinon and Laocoon in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica: A Rewriting and De-Romanisation of Vergil’s Aeneid?
• Odysseus the Roman: Imperial Temporality and the Posthomerica
• Triphiodorus and the Aeneid: From Poetics to Ideology
• ἄντρα περικλυτά: Revisiting Mythical Places in the Orphic Argonautica
• Pantomime Games in the Dionysiaca and Vergil’s Song of Silenus
• Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality
• List of Contributors
• General Index
• Index Locorum