Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica, A study of heroic characterization and heroism.

Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica, A study of heroic characterization and heroism.

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. P...

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Main Author: Tine Scheijnen

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 421.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Supplement 2019, ISBN: 9789004390850.

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Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.

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Call Number: PA4407.Q6 S344 2018

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505 0 0 |a Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Heroic Characters -- Penthesilea and Memnon: Two Ways to Fight Achilles -- The Death and Inheritance of Achilles -- Neoptolemus, a New Aeacid in the Field -- Heroism and the Sack of Troy -- Reconsidering Heroic Tactics -- Suffering Trojans, Victorious Achaeans -- Heroic and Divine Power -- Conclusion: Worthy of the Aeacids? -- Back Matter -- Bibliography. 
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