Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica [electronic resource] : engaging Homer in late antiquity / by Calum Alasdair Maciver.
Language: English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Latin Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; ; 343.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.Description: viii, 224 pISBN:- 9789004230200 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9789004230217 (e-book)
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Signs of the times: being Homer later -- Reading Quintus reading Homer -- A late antique aesthetic? -- (M)use-less singing: Quintus' art? -- Ecphrasis and the emblems of the past -- Reading directions in ecphrasis -- (Re-)reading the shield of Achilles -- Unfolding ecphrasis: the mountain of arete -- Speaking morality through gnomai -- Homeric voices? narrators and narratees -- Fate, gods, and the sayings of Nestor -- Posthomeric similes, Homeric likenesses -- Penthesileia: a new dawn -- Helen received, Helen judged -- Like father like son: comparing Neoptolemus.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
In English, with some Greek and Latin.