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).

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Robert Simms -- Trojan and Homeric Continuations -- The Odyssey after the Iliad: Ties That Bind / Elizabeth Minchin -- The Ilias Latina as a Roman Continuation of the Iliad / Reinhold F. Glei -- Triphiodorus’ The Sack of Troy and Colluthus’ The Rape of Helen: A Sequel and a Prequel from Late Antiquity / Orestis Karavas -- Program and Poetics in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica / Calum A. Maciver -- Teaching Homer through (Annotated) Poetry: John Tzetzes’ Carmina Iliaca / Marta Cardin -- Joseph of Exeter: Troy through Dictys and Dares / Francine Mora-Lebrun -- Robert Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid: Transtextual Tragedy / Nickolas A. Haydock -- Trojan Pasts, Medieval Presents: Epic Continuation in Eleventh to Thirteenth Century Genealogical Histories / Adam J. Goldwyn -- Epic Continuation as Basis for Moral Education: The Télémaque of Fénelon / Jardar Lohne -- Nikos Kazantzakis’ Odysseia: The Epic Sequel in Modern Greek Poetry and Classical Reception / Martha Klironomos -- Spinning a Thread of One’s Own from Homer to Atwood / Buket Akgün -- Beyond Troy and Homer -- Squaring the Epic Cycle: Ovid’s Rewriting of the Epic Tradition in the Metamorphoses / Marie Louise von Glinski -- Continuing the Aeneid in the First Century: Ovid’s “Little Aeneid”, Lucan’s Bellum Civile, and Silius Italicus’ Punica / Neil W. Bernstein -- Vegio’s Supplement: Classical Learning, Christian Readings / Anne Rogerson -- Ending the Argonautica: Giovanni Battista Pio’s Argonautica-Supplement (1519) / Emma Buckley -- Redressing Caesar as Dido in Thomas May’s Continuations of Lucan / Robert Simms -- Thomas Ross’ Translation and Continuation of Silius Italicus’ Punica in the English Restoration / Antony Augoustakis -- Epic Scotland: Wilkie, Macpherson and Other Homeric Efforts / Kristin Lindfield-Ott -- Virgil Mentor: Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia / Nickolas A. Haydock -- Back Matter -- Index.