Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica : engaging Homer in late antiquity
| 1. Verfasser: |
Maciver, Calum Alasdair
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
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| Umfang/Format: |
viii, 224 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
343 |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 1 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Signs of the times: being Homer later
- Reading Quintus reading Homer
- A late antique aesthetic?
- (M)use-less singing: Quintus' art?
- Ecphrasis and the emblems of the past
- Reading directions in ecphrasis
- (Re-)reading the shield of Achilles
- Unfolding ecphrasis: the mountain of arete
- Speaking morality through gnomai
- Homeric voices? narrators and narratees
- Fate, gods, and the sayings of Nestor
- Posthomeric similes, Homeric likenesses
- Penthesileia: a new dawn
- Helen received, Helen judged
- Like father like son: comparing Neoptolemus.
