Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica engaging Homer in late antiquity /

Maciver, Calum Alasdair

Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica engaging Homer in late antiquity / [Texte imprimé] : by Calum Alasdair Maciver - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012 - 1 vol. (VIII-224 p.) ; 24 cm - Mnemosyne supplements : monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature . - Mnemosyne (Brill, Leiden). Supplements : monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; 343 .

Bibliogr. p. 197-214

Signs of the times: being Homer later -- Reading Quintus reading Homer -- A late antique aesthetic? -- (M)use-less singing: Quintus' art? -- Ecphrasis and the emblems of the past -- Reading directions in ecphrasis -- (Re-)reading the shield of Achilles -- Unfolding ecphrasis: the mountain of arete -- Speaking morality through gnomai -- Homeric voices? narrators and narratees -- Fate, gods, and the sayings of Nestor -- Posthomeric similes, Homeric likenesses -- Penthesileia: a new dawn -- Helen received, Helen judged -- Like father like son: comparing Neoptolemus

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