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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Table of Contents:
  • 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.