Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic

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, Pa...

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Format:	Online
Language:	English German
Published:	De Gruyter 2021
Subjects:	Greek Antiquity (literature) Homer sophistics thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
Online Access:	ONIX_20211207_9783110942507_59
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