Posthomerica
By: Quintus Smyrnaeus ; edited and translated by Neil Hopkinson
Contributors: Quintus, Smyrnaeus, active 4th century; Hopkinson, Neil, 1957- editor, translator
Series: Loeb classical library -- 19; Loeb classical library -- 19.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2018
Language: grc; eng
Number of pages: 745
ISBN-13: 9780674997165
Subjects: Trojan War; Early works to 1800; Poetry
Description: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, the only long mythological epic to survive in Greek from the period between Apollonius' Argonautica (3rd century BC) and Nonnus' Dionysiaca (5th century AD), fills in the whole story of the Trojan expedition between the end of Homer's Iliad and the beginning of the Odyssey, which had been treated only episocially by earlier epic and dramatic poets. Composing sometime between the late second and mid-fourth centuries AD, Quintus boldly adapts Homeric diction and style to suit the literary, moral, religious, rhetorical, and philosophical culture of the high Roman Empire and does not hesitate to diverge from the usual versions of the story in order to craft his own narrative vision.
Notes: "LCL 19."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Greek with Greek and English on facing pages.