Format:
1 online resource (512 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783110942507
Series Statement:
Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies v.17
Content:
Millennium pursues an interdisciplinary approach transcending historical eras. The international editorial board and the advisory board represent a wide range of disciplines - contributions from art and literary studies are just as welcome as historical, theological and philosophical disciplines; contributions on Latin and Greek cultures just as welcome as on Oriental cultures.
Content:
Intro -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- An Introduction to Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica -- I The Epic Art of the Posthomerica: Poetics and Narrative Structure -- Quintus Smyrnaeus und die Tradition des epischen Musenanrufs -- The Use of Analepses and Prolepses in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica -- Light and Darkness in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica 2 -- Die Poetik der Schilde: Form und Funktion von Ekphraseis in den Posthomerica des Quintus Smyrnaeus -- II Quintus and his (Homeric) Models: Imitation and Innovation -- Quintus of Smyrna and Virgil - A Matter of Prejudice -- Ripresa della tradizione e innovazione compositiva: la medicina nei Posthomerica di Quinto Smirneo -- Vorbild und aemulatio: An der Kreuzung von intertextuellen Bezügen in den Totenklagen dreier Frauen in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica: Briseis, Tekmessa und Oinone -- III Cosmology, Ethics, and Heroism -- Zur Rolle der Personifikationen des Schicksals in den Posthomerica des Quintus Smyrnaeus -- Final Scenes in Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 14 -- Returning to the Mountain of Arete: Reading Ecphrasis, Constructing Ethics in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica -- Fish in Battle? Quintus of Smyrna and the Halieutica of Oppian -- More "Parfit Gentil Knyght" than "Hyrcanian Beast": The Reception of Neoptolemos in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica -- IV Quintus, the Second Sophistic and the Imperial Period -- From the Epics to the Second Sophistic, from Hecuba to Aethra, and finally from Troy to Athens: Defining the Position of Quintus Smyrnaeus in his Posthomerica -- Res Romanae: Cultural Politics in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and Nonnus' Dionysiaca -- Nonnus, Quintus and the Sack of Troy -- Wege und Formen, Umwege und Umformungen: Quintus Smyrnaeus und die Rezeption der Trojasage in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike -- Abstracts -- List of contributors -- Bibliography.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110195774
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783110195774
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
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