Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica
Subtitle: engaging Homer in late antiquity
By: by Calum Alasdair Maciver
Series: Mnemosyne supplements -- volume 343; Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava -- v. 343.
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; gre
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9789004230200
Subjects: Appreciation
Description: This book, the first monograph in English on Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica in over a century, offers a comprehensive study of the poem's poetics and narrative, with a specific focus on the interaction between its Homeric intertextuality and Late Antique influences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Signs of the times: being Homer later; title: Reading Quintus reading Homer; title: A late antique aesthetic?; title: (M)use-less singing: Quintus' art?; title: Ecphrasis and the emblems of the past; title: Reading directions in ecphrasis; title: (Re-)reading the shield of Achilles; title: Unfolding ecphrasis: the mountain of arete; title: Speaking morality through gnomai; title: Homeric voices? narrators and narratees; title: Fate, gods, and the sayings of Nestor; title: Posthomeric similes, Homeric likenesses; title: Penthesileia: a new dawn; title: Helen received, Helen judged; title: Like father like son: comparing Neoptolemus.