A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica V
A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica V

Author: Alan James

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 9004351116

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The Posthomerica of Quintus of Smyrna is the only surviving Greek epic that gives a full narrative of the Trojan War between the Iliad and the Odyssey. Book V covers the contest between Ajax and Odysseus over the armour of Achilles, leading to Ajax' madness, suicide and funeral. The book gives balanced treatment to matters of text, language, literary qualities and sources. An introduction discusses the poem's main features. The commentary is punctuated by introductions to sections. There are indexes of subjects, ancient and mediaeval literature and Greek words. The work's major areas of interest are: influence of the Homeric epics, Quintus' use of later sources, the Trojan War in Greek and Latin literature, and Greek cultural history under the Roman Empire. This is the first full-length commentary on the book.

A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13
A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13

Author: Renker, Stephan

Publisher: University of Bamberg Press

Published: 2020-09-03

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 3863097394

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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

Published: 2004-11-03

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780801879654

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Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica

Author: Tine Scheijnen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-09-11

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 9004380973

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Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica (3rd century C.E.) is of great literary value to the field of Greek epic. It is a stylistic imitation of Homer and recounts what Iliad and Odyssey have left untold of the Trojan War. Tine Scheijnen offers the first linear study of this still little-known poem. Progressing from book 1 to 14, she focusses on key issues such as Homeric similes and characterization of heroes (especially Achilles and his son Neoptolemus). Ideologically, Quintus engages in a critical way with Homer, but possibly also Vergil, Triphiodorus and tragedy. Scheijnen’s work can be read as a thorough introduction to Quintus’ Posthomerica, while also offering new insights into Homer reception, the conception of heroes and heroism in Greek epic.

Speech in Ancient Greek Literature
Speech in Ancient Greek Literature

Author: Mathieu de Bakker

Publisher: Mnemosyne, Supplements

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13: 9789004498808

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"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

Published: 2012-05-10

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9004230211

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Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica (3rd century C.E.), the 14 book Greek epic on the Trojan War, is a text which has traditionally been overlooked in the main canon of Classical authors, and in fact until only recently has been largely ignored as a literary work. This book, the first monograph in English on the poem since 1904, examines the Posthomerica’s close relationship with the Homeric epics, with a focus on the originality and Late Antique interpretative bias of Quintus in his readings and emulation of Homer. The study deals specifically with three separate aspects of poetics, and their Homeric intertextuality: ecphrasis, gnomai, and similes, and their role within the poem’s narrative strategies, themes, and aims.

Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic
Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic

Author: Manuel Baumbach

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 311094250X

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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.

Virgil, Aeneid 11
Virgil, Aeneid 11

Author: Nicholas Horsfall

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9004349979

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This is the first comprehensive commentary on Aeneid 11. The commentary treats fully matters of linguistic and textual interpretation, metre and prosody, grammar, lexicon and idiom, of Roman behaviour, social and ritual, as well as Virgil’s sources and the literary tradition. New critical approaches and developments in Virgilian studies have been taken into account with economy and fairness. The Latin text is presented with a facing English translation. The commentary is followed by an appendix on Penthesilea and the Epic Cycle and a second appendix which discusses the weaknesses of Aeneid 11. The book concludes with English and Latin indices. In approach and learning, this commentary continues Nicholas Horsfall’s impressive work as a commentator and will advance our understanding of the Aeneid and the poet Virgil.

Reading the Ovidian Heroine
Reading the Ovidian Heroine

Author: Kathryn L. McKinley

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9789004117969

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This study investigates the reception of Ovidian heroines in "Metamorphoses" commentaries written between 1100 and 1618 on the Continent in England. Medieval and early modern clerical readings of the feminine in Ovid reflect greater heterogeneity than is commonly alleged.