Quintus of Smyrna’s 'Posthomerica'
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-9358-1 (ISBN)
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.
Silvio Bär is Professor of Classics at the University of Oslo. His research areas and interests include Greek hexameter poetry (especially of the imperial period), tragedy, lyric, the novel, mythology, rhetoric, the Second Sophistic, intertextuality, transtextuality, diachronic narratology, and the reception of antiquity in English literature and popular culture. He has published widely on Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica, on the genre ‘epyllion’, and on the character of Herakles in Greek epic and beyond. Emma Greensmith is Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John’s College. She specialises in imperial Greek literature and is particularly interested in epic, poetics and religion. Her recent book, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (CUP, 2020) offers a new reading of the role of epic and the reception of Homer in Graeco-Roman culture. She has also written recent articles on Nonnus, Gregory of Nazianzus and the Sibylline Oracles and is editing a new Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic. Leyla Ozbek is Research Fellow of Greek Language and Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. She obtained her PhD in Classics at the Scuola Normale with a dissertation on Quintus’ Posthomerica Book 9, now forthcoming for publication. She has been research fellow at the Scuola Normale and annual visiting scholar at the University College London and at the University of Zurich. In 2015-2016 she was Research Associate at the University of Cambridge on the AHRC-funded Project ‘Greek Epic of the Roman Empire: A Cultural History’. Her research interests are Greek epic and culture of the imperial period, Greek tragedy and fragments, papyrology and the study of ancient manuscripts transmission.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.01.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 2 black and white illustrations, 5 black and white tables |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-9358-0 / 1474493580 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-9358-1 / 9781474493581 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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