The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic
Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19948211 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Greensmith (University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108907200 |
| OpenAlex | W4211034721 |
| Open Library | OL34762004M |
| ISBN | 9781108907200 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 282 |
This book offers a radically new reading of Quintus' Posthomerica, the first account to combine a literary and cultural-historical understanding of what is the most important Greek epic written at the height of the Roman Empire. In Emma Greensmith's ground-breaking analysis, Quintus emerges as a key poet in the history of epic and of Homeric reception. Writing as if he is Homer himself, and occupying the space between the Iliad and the Odyssey, Quintus constructs a new 'poetics of the interval'. At all levels, from its philology to its plotting, the Posthomerica manipulates the language of affiliation, succession and repetition not just to articulate its own position within the inherited epic tradition but also to contribute to the literary and identity politics of imperial society. This book changes how we understand the role of epic and Homer in Greco-Roman culture - and completely re-evaluates Quintus' status as a poet
Art · EPIC · Feminism · Literature · Philology · Poetics · Poetry · Sociology · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Classical philology
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Troy Story
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Solar Sons
Qui volunt eos cognoscere, Argonautas legant
Lyric in the Second Degree
Less Care, More Stress
History of Classical Scholarship
The making of Homeric verse
Momentary monsters
Narrative Discourse
Myth and society in ancient Greece
The Vichy syndrome
Bildung und Macht
Art and the Roman viewer
Virtual history
Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception
Book III of the Sibylline Oracles and its Social Setting
The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity
The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian
Exemplary Epic
The Reception of Nonnus in Late Antiquity, Byzantine, and Renaissance Literature
Art And Agency
Narrators and Focalizers
‘Virgins of God’
Education in Ancient Rome
Visions and revisions of Homer
Homer and the Precarity of Tradition
Greek translations of Latin literature in the fourth century A.D.
Homer and Herodotus
Gymnastics of the Mind
Caesar's Calendar
How Forests Think
Redeeming the text
The Greek Anthology - 2-Part Set
Graecia Capta
The Rhetoric of Imitation
The Epic Successors of Virgil
Pindar's Homer
The Hippias Minor and the Traditions of Homeric Criticism
What Can We Learn about Greek Grammar from a Mosaic?
Gazing at Helen with Stesichorus
Quintus Smyrnaeus »Posthomerica« 1
Homer's Use of Personal πολυ- Compounds
A Fragment of Tatian's Diatessaron in Greek
From Villain to Hero
A Theory of Imitation in Plato's Republic
Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought
Die pseudoplutarchische Schrift De Homero
The Reliability of Philostratus's "Lives of the Sophists"
Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature
The Ancient Critic at Work
Bilingualism and the Latin Language
The pastoral mode
‘Begotten, Not Made’
Trajan's Engines
Fiction, Mimesis and the Performance of the Past in the Second Sophistic
A Greek Fragment of Tatian's Diatessaron from Dura
Der antike Roman und seine mittelalterliche Rezeption
Fakes and Forgers of Classical Literature
The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues
Mimesis And Psychological Change In Republic III
Poetische Argumentation
Modern Paroemiology and the Use of Gnomai in Homer's Iliad
Theordoof rhetoric and the rhetoric of order
Playing the Other
The Fast and the Furious
More “Parfit Gentil Knyght” than “Hyrcanian Beast”
Fish in Battle? Quintus of Smyrna and the Halieutica of Oppian
The Rhetorical Criticism of Homer
The Songs of Demodocus
Composing the Masters
The Trojan Oration of Dio Chrysostom and Ancient Homeric Criticism
Zur Rolle der Personifikationen des Schicksals in den Posthomerica des Quintus Smyrnaeus
“Museum of Words”
Narratological Concepts in Greek Scholia
Beyond the Second Sophistic
Beginnings in Classical Literature
Defining Females
Hesiodic Voices
The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception
Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empire
Language, Sexuality, Narrative
Homer in Stone
The Poet's Voice
Sacred Fictions
Counterfactuals
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature
Tatian's Diatessaron
Geschichtsschreibung und politischer Wandel im 3. Jh. n. Chr
Inventing Homer
The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire
Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds
Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography
The language of heroes
Oppian's Halieutica
The Epic Gaze
The Iliad
A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey
Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature
The Iliad
The Shadow of Callimachus
On Collective Memory
The Argonautica of Apollonius
The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake
Being Greek under Rome
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |