Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic

Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic

Edited by: Manuel Baumbach and Silvio Bär in collaboration with: Nicola Dümmler

Volume 17 in the series Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110942507

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.

• Languages: English, German
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Copyright year: 2007
• Audience: Wissenschaftler, Bibliotheken, Institute
• Pages
  • Front matter: 6
  • Main content: 501
• Keywords: Greek Antiquity (literature); Homer; sophistics

eBook

• Published: February 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9783110942507

Hardcover

• Published: December 18, 2007
• ISBN: 9783110195774