A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13

A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13
Author: Renker, Stephan
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2020-09-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3863097394

The Posthomerica by Quintus of Smyrna, a Greek epic in fourteen books from the 3rd century AD, recounts the story of the Trojan War by covering the events between Hector?s burial and the departure of the Greeks after the destruction of the city. In book 13, we read about the sack of Troy, including famous episodes such as the death of Priam and Astyanax, the enslavement of Andromache, the escape of Aeneas, and the rape of Cassandra.0Stephan Renker offers the first full-scale commentary on Posthomerica 13. He introduces each episode with a discussion of the relevant literary tradition and Quintus' potential models. The following line-by-line commentary yields insights into aspects of language, literary technique, realia, and the main issues of interpretation. Thus, the reader is provided with an important tool for further investigations into this fascinating, yet understudied piece of Imperial Greek poetry.

The Trojan Epic

The Trojan Epic
Author: Quintus (Smyrnaeus)
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2004-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780801879654

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Quintus of Smyrna's 'Posthomerica'

Quintus of Smyrna's 'Posthomerica'
Author: Silvio Bär
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2022-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781474493581

Offers a literary and cultural-historical analysis of the Posthomerica.

Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic

Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic
Author: Manuel Baumbach
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2012-02-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 311094250X

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.

Speech in Ancient Greek Literature

Speech in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Mathieu de Bakker
Publisher: Mnemosyne, Supplements
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004498808

"Speech in Ancient Greek Literature is the fifth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. There is hardly any Greek narrative text without speech, which need not surprise in the literature of a culture which loved theatre and also invented the art of rhetoric. This book offers a full discussion of the types of speech, the modes of speech and their effective alternation, and the functions of speech from Homer to Heliodorus, including the Gospels. For the first time speech-introductions and 'speech in speech' are discussed across all genres. All chapters also pay attention to moments when characters do not speak"--

Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica

Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica
Author: Calum A. Maciver
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012-05-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004230203

This book, the first monograph in English on Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica in over a century, offers a comprehensive study of the poem's poetics and narrative, with a specific focus on the interaction between its Homeric intertextuality and Late Antique influences.

The War at Troy

The War at Troy
Author: Quintas of Quintas of Smryna
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1968-03-15
Genre: Troy
ISBN: 9780806148168

Quintus' epic, written probably in the third century after Christ, is the only extant literary work from antiquity that gives a connected account of the events of the Trojan War. It tells what happened to Achilles and to Troy, and of the fatal enterprises of the Queen of the Amazons and the King of Ethiopia, the funeral games held in honor of Achilles, the victory of Odysseus in his contest with Aias, the death of Paris, the strategy of the wooden horse, and the capture and sack of Troy.

Brill's Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic

Brill's Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic
Author: Robert C Simms
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004360921

The epics of ancient Greece and Rome are unique in that many went unfinished, or if they were finished, remained open to further narration that was beyond the power, interest, or sometimes the life-span of the poet. Such incompleteness inaugurated a tradition of continuance and closure in their reception. Brill’s Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic explores this long tradition of continuing epics through sequels, prequels, retellings and spin-offs. This collection of essays brings together several noted scholars working in a variety of fields to trace the persistence of this literary effort from their earliest instantiations in the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer to the contemporary novels of Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood.

The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander

The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander
Author: Brian Oliver Murdoch
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2019-05-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 900440094X

This book is a study of the literary reception of the originally Greek love-story of Hero and Leander, examining the nature of the tale and demonstrating its longevity and huge popularity from classical times to the present, in a great variety of different genres. Chapters consider the classical versions (Ovid, Musaios, Martial), medieval and renaissance versions in various European languages, folk and literary ballads (and even a pop song), the lyric, dramatic versions, settings to music, burlesques and travesties in all genres, modern reflections of the story in (experimental) literary forms.

The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry

The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry
Author: James Joseph Clauss
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2016
Genre: Classical literature
ISBN: 9783515115230

This book explores the representation of the gods in Greek hexameter poetry in its many forms, including epic, hymnic and didactic poetry, from the archaic period to late antiquity. Its twenty-five chapters, written by an international team of experts, trace a broad historical arc, reflecting developments in religious thought and practice, and ongoing philosophical and literary-critical engagement with the nature and representation of the divine and the relationship between humans and gods. They proceed from the poems ascribed to Hesiod and Homer and the so-called Cyclic epics, via the Hellenistic poets Apollonius, Callimachus, Aratus and Moschus, to the poets and poems of the third to sixth centuries CE, including Quintus of Smyrna, Triphiodorus, the Cynegetica, Nonnus, Eudocia, Colluthus, the Argonautica of Orpheus and the Sibylline Oracles. An epilogue explores the reception of the Greek "epic" gods by the Roman poets Virgil and Ovid, and by the English poets Tennyson, Walcott and Oswald.