Brill's companion to prequels, sequels, and retellings of classical epic /

Brill's companion to prequels, sequels, and retellings of classical epic /

The epics of ancient Greece and Rome are unique in that many went unfinished, or if they were finished, remained open to further narration that was beyond the power, interest, or sometimes the life-span of the poet. Such incompleteness inaugurated a tradition of continuance and closure in their rece...

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Other Authors: Simms, Robert.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 15.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online IV, ISBN: 9789004360280.

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Classical literature > History and criticism.
Epic literature > History and criticism.
Classical literature > Adaptations > History and criticism.
Epic literature > Adaptations > History and criticism.
Literature > Classical influences.

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction /
  • Robert Simms
  • Trojan and Homeric Continuations
  • The Odyssey after the Iliad: Ties That Bind /
  • Elizabeth Minchin
  • The Ilias Latina as a Roman Continuation of the Iliad /
  • Reinhold F. Glei
  • Triphiodorus' The Sack of Troy and Colluthus' The Rape of Helen: A Sequel and a Prequel from Late Antiquity /
  • Orestis Karavas
  • Program and Poetics in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica /
  • Calum A. Maciver
  • Teaching Homer through (Annotated) Poetry: John Tzetzes' Carmina Iliaca /
  • Marta Cardin
  • Joseph of Exeter: Troy through Dictys and Dares /
  • Francine Mora-Lebrun
  • Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid: Transtextual Tragedy /
  • Nickolas A. Haydock
  • Trojan Pasts, Medieval Presents: Epic Continuation in Eleventh to Thirteenth Century Genealogical Histories /
  • Adam J. Goldwyn
  • Epic Continuation as Basis for Moral Education: The Télémaque of Fénelon /
  • Jardar Lohne
  • Nikos Kazantzakis' Odysseia: The Epic Sequel in Modern Greek Poetry and Classical Reception /
  • Martha Klironomos
  • Spinning a Thread of One's Own from Homer to Atwood /
  • Buket Akgün
  • Beyond Troy and Homer
  • Squaring the Epic Cycle: Ovid's Rewriting of the Epic Tradition in the Metamorphoses /
  • Marie Louise von Glinski
  • Continuing the Aeneid in the First Century: Ovid's "Little Aeneid", Lucan's Bellum Civile, and Silius Italicus' Punica /
  • Neil W. Bernstein
  • Vegio's Supplement: Classical Learning, Christian Readings /
  • Anne Rogerson
  • Ending the Argonautica: Giovanni Battista Pio's Argonautica-Supplement (1519) /
  • Emma Buckley
  • Redressing Caesar as Dido in Thomas May's Continuations of Lucan /
  • Robert Simms
  • Thomas Ross' Translation and Continuation of Silius Italicus' Punica in the English Restoration /
  • Antony Augoustakis
  • Epic Scotland: Wilkie, Macpherson and Other Homeric Efforts /
  • Kristin Lindfield-Ott
  • Virgil Mentor: Ursula Le Guin's Lavinia /
  • Nickolas A. Haydock
  • Back Matter
  • Index.