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Offers a literary and cultural-historical analysis of the Posthomerica
Connects Quintus with a far wider range of ancient literature: historical, philosophical, dramatic, and rhetorical genres; and prosaic and poetic works
Moves away from the localized study of particular aspects of the poem to a joined-up understanding of this era of epic, as a corpus engaging dialogically with issues of empire, literary inheritance and cultural change
Intersects with the growing field of study of Late Antique literature, and the burgeoning interest in imperial Greek poetry and its accounts of the sack of Troy a story which continues to resonate in scholarly and public discourse
This collection offers a new collaborative reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica: one of the most important Greek epics written at the height of the Roman Empire. Building on the surge of interest in imperial Greek poetry seen in the past decades, this book applies new approaches - literary, theoretical and historical - to ask new questions about this mysterious, challenging poet and to re-evaluate his role in the cultural history of his time.
Bringing together experienced imperial epic scholars and new voices in this growing field, the chapters reveal Quintus' crucial place within the inherited epic tradition and his role in shaping the literary and identity politics of Late Antique society.
Contents
Introduction: Going to Rome, Returning to Troy - Silvio Bär, Emma Greensmith and Leyla Ozbek
Part I: Contexts and Poetics
Temporality and Temper: Time, Narrative and Heroism in Quintus of Smyrna - Simon Goldhill
Poetry, Performance, and Quintus' Posthomerica - Katerina Carvounis
A-Sexual Epic? Consummation and Closure in the Posthomerica - Emma Greensmith
Images of Life and Death: Visualising the Heroic Body in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica - Ann-Sophie Schoess
Part II: Religion, Gods and Destiny
A Non-Homeric Fate in Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica? Representation, Function, Problems - Calum A. Maciver
Disempowering the Gods - Katia Barbaresco
Animal and Human Sacrifice in Quintus of Smyrna - Jan N. Bremmer
Part III: Between Narratology and Lexicology
A Narratological Study on the Role of the Fates in the Posthomerica - Eirini Argyrouli
Wielding Words: Neoptolemus as a Speaker of Words in Quintus' Posthomerica - Tine Scheijnen
Stepping Out of Place: σχέτλιος in Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica - Jordan Maly-Preuss
Renewing Homer with Homer: The Use of Epithets in Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica - Alessia Ferreccio
Polychronic Intertextuality in Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica - Vincent Tomasso
Part IV: The Struggle with the Literary Past
The Dissolution of Troy: Homeric Narratology in the Posthomerica - Fran Middleton
'Why So Serious?' The Ambivalence of Joy and Laughter in the Iliad, Odyssey and Posthomerica - Arnold Bärtschi
Reshaping the Nature of Heroes: Heracles, Philoctetes and the Bow in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica - Leyla Ozbek
Quintus and the Epic Cycle - Giampiero Scafoglio
Part V: Re-Readings and Re-Workings
Philological Editor and Protestant Pedagogue: How Lorenz Rhodoman (1545‒1606) Worked on the Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus - Thomas Gärtner
Too Homeric to be True: John Tzetzes' Reception of Quintus of Smyrna and the Importance of Plausibility - Valeria F. Lovato
A Postmodern Quintus? Theories of Fan Fiction and the Posthomerica - Stephan Renker
BibliographyGeneral indexIndex of passages citedNote on contributors
