Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 745 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Loeb classical library 19
Uniform Title:
Posthomerica
Content:
Quintus Smyrnaeus's Posthomerica, composed between the late second and mid-fourth centuries AD, boldly adapts Homeric diction and style to fill in the story of the Trojan expedition between the end of the Iliad and the beginning of the Odyssey. This edition replaces the earlier Loeb Classical Library edition by A.S. Way (1913), Quintus Smyrnaeus's Posthomerica, the only long mythological epic to survive in Greek from the period between Apollonius' Argonautica (3rd century BC) and Nonnus' Dionysiaca (5th century AD), fills in the whole story of the Trojan expedition between the end of Homer's Iliad and the beginning of the Odyssey, which had been treated only episodically by earlier epic and dramatic poets. Composing sometime between the late second and mid-fourth centuries AD, Quintus boldly adapts Homeric diction and style to suit the literary, moral, religious, rhetorical, and philosophical culture of the high Roman Empire, and does not hesitate to diverge from the usual versions of the story in order to craft his own narrative vision. This edition of the Posthomerica replaces the earlier Loeb Classical Library edition by A.S. Way (1913) with an updated text based on that of F. Vian, and fresh translation, introduction, and bibliography that take account of more than a century of intervening scholarship
Note:
"This edition ... replaces the earlier Loeb Classical Library edition by A. S. Way (1913) with and updated text"
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Einleitung englisch, Text griechisch und englisch
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674997165
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Quintus, Smyrnaeus Posthomerica Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780674997165
Language:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Keywords:
Quintus Smyrnaeus Posthomerica
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Übersetzung
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Englisch
Author information:
Quintus Smyrnaeus
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