Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica : engaging Homer in late antiquity / / by Calum Alasdair Maciver.
Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica (3rd century C.E.), the 14 book Greek epic on the Trojan War, is a text which has traditionally been overlooked in the main canon of Classical authors, and in fact until only recently has been largely ignored as a literary work. This book, the first monograph in...
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| Superior document: | Mnemosyne : supplements : monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, v. 343 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
343. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Signs of the times: being Homer later
- Reading Quintus reading Homer
- A late antique aesthetic?
- (M)use-less singing: Quintus' art?
- Ecphrasis and the emblems of the past
- Reading directions in ecphrasis
- (Re-)reading the shield of Achilles
- Unfolding ecphrasis: the mountain of arete
- Speaking morality through gnomai
- Homeric voices? narrators and narratees
- Fate, gods, and the sayings of Nestor
- Posthomeric similes, Homeric likenesses
- Penthesileia: a new dawn
- Helen received, Helen judged
- Like father like son: comparing Neoptolemus.