Brill's companion to prequels, sequels, and retellings of classical epic / / edited by Robert Simms.

• TeilnehmendeR: Simms, Robert.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (409 pages).
• Other title: Companion to prequels, sequels, and retellings of classical epic; Front Matter --; Copyright Page --; Notes on Contributors --; Introduction /; Trojan and Homeric Continuations --; The Odyssey after the Iliad: Ties That Bind /; The Ilias Latina as a Roman Continuation of the Iliad /; Triphiodorus’ The Sack of Troy and Colluthus’ The Rape of Helen: A Sequel and a Prequel from Late Antiquity /; Program and Poetics in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica /; Teaching Homer through (Annotated) Poetry: John Tzetzes’ Carmina Iliaca /; Joseph of Exeter: Troy through Dictys and Dares /; Robert Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid: Transtextual Tragedy /; Trojan Pasts, Medieval Presents: Epic Continuation in Eleventh to Thirteenth Century Genealogical Histories /; Epic Continuation as Basis for Moral Education: The Télémaque of Fénelon /; Nikos Kazantzakis’ Odysseia: The Epic Sequel in Modern Greek Poetry and Classical Reception /; Spinning a Thread of One’s Own from Homer to Atwood /; Beyond Troy and Homer --; Squaring the Epic Cycle: Ovid’s Rewriting of the Epic Tradition in the Metamorphoses /; Continuing the Aeneid in the First Century: Ovid’s “Little Aeneid”, Lucan’s Bellum Civile, and Silius Italicus’ Punica /; Vegio’s Supplement: Classical Learning, Christian Readings /; Ending the Argonautica: Giovanni Battista Pio’s Argonautica-Supplement (1519) /; Redressing Caesar as Dido in Thomas May’s Continuations of Lucan /; Thomas Ross’ Translation and Continuation of Silius Italicus’ Punica in the English Restoration /; Epic Scotland: Wilkie, Macpherson and Other Homeric Efforts /; Virgil Mentor: Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia /; Back Matter --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004360921
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Robert Simms.

The epics of ancient Greece and Rome are unique in that many went unfinished, or if they were finished, remained open to further narration that was beyond the power, interest, or sometimes the life-span of the poet. Such incompleteness inaugurated a tradition of continuance and closure in their reception. Brill’s Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic explores this long tradition of continuing epics through sequels, prequels, retellings and spin-offs. This collection of essays brings together several noted scholars working in a variety of fields to trace the persistence of this literary effort from their earliest instantiations in the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer to the contemporary novels of Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood.