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Informationen zum Autor Calum A. Maciver , PhD (2009) in Classics, University of Edinburgh, is currently lecturer in Greek at the University of Leeds. He has published a number of articles on Later Greek Hexameter poetry, especially Quintus Smyrnaeus. Klappentext This book, the first monograph in English on Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica in over a century, offers a comprehensive study of the poem's poetics and narrative, with a specific focus on the interaction between its Homeric intertextuality and Late Antique influences. Table of Contents; Preface ii; Introduction 1; Chapter 1: Signs of the Times: Being Homer Later 8; (i) Reading Quintus Reading Homer 8; (ii) A Late Antique Aesthetic? 16; (iii) (M)use-less Singing: Quintus' Art? 33; Chapter 2: Ecphrasis and the Emblems of the Past 47; (i) Reading Directions in Ecphrasis 47; (ii) (Re-)reading the Shield of Achilles 59; (iii) Unfolding Ecphrasis: the Mountain of Arete 84; Chapter 3: Speaking Morality through Gnomai 111; (i) Homeric voices? Narrators and Narratees 111; (ii) Fate, Gods, and the Sayings of Nestor 130; Chapter 4: Posthomeric Similes, Homeric Likenesses 160; (i) Penthesileia: A New Dawn 160; (ii) Helen Received, Helen Judged 201; (iii) Like Father like Son: Comparing Neoptolemus 225; Afterword 252; Bibliography 255
