Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic - Quintus Smyrnaeus'' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation

List of contents

Preface; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Beginning again (introduction): the poetics of impersonation; Part I. Quintus as Homer: Illusion and Imitation: 1. Enlarging the space: imperial doubleness, fixity, expansion; 2. Writing homer: language, composition and style; Part II. Quintus as Quintus: Antagonism and Assimilation: 3. When homer quotes callimachus: the proem (not) in the middle; 4. Selective memory and iliadic revision; 5. Prodigal poetics: filiation and succession; 6. Temporality and the homeric not yet; Bibliography.

About the author

Emma Greensmith is Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at St John's College, Oxford. She specialises in imperial Greek literature. She previously held a Research Fellowship at Jesus College, Cambridge, and a Visiting Assistant Professorship at Colgate University, New York. She was a member of the AHRC-funded collaborative project 'Imperial Greek Epic: A Cultural History'.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Greensmith, Emma (University of Oxford) Greensmith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781108830331
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83033-1
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval