Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic
Contributor(s)
Baumbach, Manuel (editor)
Bär, Silvio (editor)
Language
English; GermanAbstract
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.
Keywords
Greek Antiquity (literature); Homer; sophisticsDOI
10.1515/9783110942507ISBN
9783110942507, 9783110195774, 9783110942507Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2012Series
Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies, 17Classification
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval