Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic

book: Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic

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Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic

Edited by: Manuel Baumbach and Silvio Bär
In collaboration with: Nicola Dümmler

Volume 17 in the series Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110942507

About this book

The “Events after Homer”, described by Quintus Smyrnaeus in the third century AD in his Greek epic Posthomerica, are an attempt to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey , and to combine the various scattered reports of the battle for Troy into a single tale: the fate of Achilles, Ajax, Paris and the Amazon Penthesileia, the intervention of Neoptolemos and the story from the Trojan horse to the destruction of the city. The volume presented here summarizes the results of the first international conference on Quintus Smyrnaeus.

Author / Editor information

Manuel Baumbach und Silvio Bär, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Reviews

"Overall, this volume is a welcome addition to scholarship on imperial Greek poetry and provides fresh and exciting new directions for the study of Quintus of Smyrna and late Greek literature generally. It is highly recommended for readers interested in intertextuality/reception studies, the Second Sophistic, or late antiquity generally."
Vincent Tomasso in: BMCR 2008.09.58

Topics

Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Table of contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	VII
An Introduction to Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica Manuel Baumbach and Silvio Bär Open Access Download PDF	1
I The Epic Art of the Posthomerica: Poetics and Narrative Structure
Quintus Smyrnaeus und die Tradition des epischen Musenanrufs Silvio Bär Open Access Download PDF	29
The Use of Analepses and Prolepses in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica Thomas A. Schmitz Open Access Download PDF	65
Light and Darkness in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica 2 Andrei Goția Open Access Download PDF	85
Die Poetik der Schilde: Form und Funktion von Ekphraseis in den Posthomerica des Quintus Smyrnaeus Manuel Baumbach Open Access Download PDF	107
II Quintus and his (Homeric) Models: Imitation and Innovation
Quintus of Smyrna and Virgil – A Matter of Prejudice Alan W. James Open Access Download PDF	145
Ripresa della tradizione e innovazione compositiva: la medicina nei Posthomerica di Quinto Smirneo Leyla Ozbek Open Access Download PDF	159
Vorbild und aemulatio: An der Kreuzung von intertextuellen Bezügen in den Totenklagen dreier Frauen in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica: Briseis, Tekmessa und Oinone Georgios P. Tsomis Open Access Download PDF	185
III Cosmology, Ethics, and Heroism
Zur Rolle der Personifikationen des Schicksals in den Posthomerica des Quintus Smyrnaeus Ursula Gärtner Open Access Download PDF	211
Final Scenes in Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 14 Aikaterini Carvounis Open Access Download PDF	241
Returning to the Mountain of Arete: Reading Ecphrasis, Constructing Ethics in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica Calum A. Maciver Open Access Download PDF	259
Fish in Battle? Quintus of Smyrna and the Halieutica of Oppian Emily Kneebone Open Access Download PDF	285
More “Parfit Gentil Knyght” than “Hyrcanian Beast”: The Reception of Neoptolemos in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica Bellini Boyten Open Access Download PDF	307
IV Quintus, the Second Sophistic and the Imperial Period
From the Epics to the Second Sophistic, from Hecuba to Aethra, and finally from Troy to Athens: Defining the Position of Quintus Smyrnaeus in his Posthomerica Paul Schubert Open Access Download PDF	339
Res Romanae: Cultural Politics in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica and Nonnus’ Dionysiaca Fotini Hadjittofi Open Access Download PDF	357
Nonnus, Quintus and the Sack of Troy Robert Shorrock Open Access Download PDF	379
Wege und Formen, Umwege und Umformungen: Quintus Smyrnaeus und die Rezeption der Trojasage in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike Knut Usener Open Access Download PDF	393
Abstracts Open Access Download PDF	411
List of contributors Open Access Download PDF	419
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	421
Indices Open Access Download PDF	467

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Wissenschaftler, Bibliotheken, Institute
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 501
Keywords: Greek Antiquity (literature); Homer; sophistics

eBook

Published: February 14, 2012
ISBN: 9783110942507

Hardcover

Published: December 18, 2007
ISBN: 9783110195774