The Trojan Epic
Subtitle: Posthomerica (Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity)
Contributors: Alan James (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780801879654
Subjects: Works by individual poets: classical, early & medieval; Trojan War; History: World; Classics; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Translations into English; Poetry; Ancient and Classical; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Troy (Extinct city); Medieval; Epic poetry, Greek
First sentence: The Greek epic poem by Quintus of Smyrna is the only large-scale poetic narrative of much of the traditional story of the Trojan War surviving from antiquity.