Maciver, Calum Alasdair.

Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica engaging Homer in late antiquity / [electronic resource] : by Calum Alasdair Maciver. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012. - viii, 224 p. - Mnemosyne : supplements : monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, v. 343 0169-8958 ; . - Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 343. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.


In English, with some Greek and Latin.






Quintus, Smyrnaeus, 4th cent. Posthomerica.
Homer--Appreciation.


Electronic books.

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