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Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic

By Manuel , Baumbach

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2012
ISBN
9783110195774, 3110195771
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8311930 bytes)
Pages
507\512
Time added
2020-11-29 05:12:58

Description

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.

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