Revival and revision of the Trojan myth
Subtitle: studies on Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius
By: a cura di Graziana Brescia, Mario Lentano, Giampiero Scafoglio, Valentina Zanusso
Series: Spudasmata -- 177; Spudasmata -- Bd. 177.
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Hildesheim
Language: eng; ita; fre; ger; gre
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9783487156811
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Trojan War; Literature and the war; Daretis Phrygii de excidio Troiae historia
Description: The "alternative" rewritings of the Trojan myth by Dictys and Dares are among the most interesting and mysterious works of Late Antiquity: yet it is only recently that they have started getting due attention, and many issues about them still remain unsolved. This is one of the first books that relies on contributions by several scholars to comprehensively cover this subject in its various aspects, from the delicate question of (true or supposed) Greek models to cultural context, expected audience, intertextuality, structural patterns, narrative technique, themes, characters, aims, up to style and language. What emerges is a fuller and partly new view of the two works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.