Emma Greensmith

The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic

Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781108830331
• ISBN-10: 1108830331
• Artikelnr.: 59180264

Autorenporträt

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'.

Inhaltsangabe

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.