Posthomerica / Quintus Smyrnaeus ; edited and translated by Neil Hopkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quintus, Smyrnaeus, active 4th century, author.

Contributor:

Hopkinson, Neil, 1957-2021, editor, translator.

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 19.

Loeb classical library ; 19

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Trojan War--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Trojan War.

Genre:

Epic poetry.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into English.

Early works.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xvi, 745 pages ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

Greek and English on opposite pages.

Summary:

Quintus Smyrnaeus' 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 episocially 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Container of: Quintus, Smyrnaeus, active 4th century. Posthomerica. English (Hopkinson)

Container of: Quintus, Smyrnaeus, active 4th century. Posthomerica. Greek (Hopkinson)

ISBN:

0674997166

9780674997165

OCLC:

1006440164

Publisher Number:

9780674997165