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Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica [electronic resource] : engaging Homer in late antiquity / by Calum Alasdair Maciver.

By: Maciver, Calum Alasdair.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica BatavaSupplementum: 343.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012Description: viii, 224 p.Subject(s): Quintus, Smyrnaeus, 4th cent. Posthomerica | Homer -- AppreciationGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 883/.01 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.
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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.

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