Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic

Manuel Baumbach, Silvio Bär, Nicola Dümmler, Manuel Baumbach, Silvio Bär

• Editore: De Gruyter
• Anno: 2012
• ISBN:
  9783110942507
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: History
• Categoria: Ancient History

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Indice dei contenuti

• Table of contents
• Acknowledgements
• An Introduction to Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica
• I The Epic Art of the Posthomerica: Poetics and Narrative Structure
• Quintus Smyrnaeus und die Tradition des epischen Musenanrufs
• The Use of Analepses and Prolepses in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica
• Light and Darkness in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica 2
• Die Poetik der Schilde: Form und Funktion von Ekphraseis in den Posthomerica des Quintus Smyrnaeus
• II Quintus and his (Homeric) Models: Imitation and Innovation
• Quintus of Smyrna and Virgil – A Matter of Prejudice
• Ripresa della tradizione e innovazione compositiva: la medicina nei Posthomerica di Quinto Smirneo
• Vorbild und aemulatio: An der Kreuzung von intertextuellen Bezügen in den Totenklagen dreier Frauen in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica: Briseis, Tekmessa und Oinone
• III Cosmology, Ethics, and Heroism
• Zur Rolle der Personifikationen des Schicksals in den Posthomerica des Quintus Smyrnaeus
• Final Scenes in Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 14
• Returning to the Mountain of Arete: Reading Ecphrasis, Constructing Ethics in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica
• Fish in Battle? Quintus of Smyrna and the Halieutica of Oppian
• More “Parfit Gentil Knyght” than “Hyrcanian Beast”: The Reception of Neoptolemos in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica
• 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
• Res Romanae: Cultural Politics in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica and Nonnus’ Dionysiaca
• Nonnus, Quintus and the Sack of Troy
• Wege und Formen, Umwege und Umformungen: Quintus Smyrnaeus und die Rezeption der Trojasage in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike
• Abstracts
• List of contributors
• Bibliography
• Indices