Posthomerica - ECU Libraries Catalog

Posthomerica / Quintus Smyrnaeus ; edited and translated by Neil Hopkinson.

Author/creator	Quintus, Smyrnaeus, active 4th century author.
Included Work	Container of (expression): Quintus, Smyrnaeus, active 4th century. Posthomerica. English (Hopkinson)
Included Work	Container of (expression): Quintus, Smyrnaeus, active 4th century. Posthomerica. Greek (Hopkinson)
Included Work	Hopkinson, Neil, 1957-2021 editor, translator.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Description	xvi, 745 pages ; 17 cm.
Supplemental Content	https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL019/2018/volume.xml
Subject(s)	Trojan War--Poetry --Early works to 1800.

Series	Loeb classical library ; 19 Loeb classical library ; 19. ^A467228
Abstract	Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, the only long mythological epic to survive in Greek from the period between Apollonius' Argonautica (3rd century BC) and Nonnus' Dionysiaca (5th century AD), fills in the whole story of the Trojan expedition between the end of Homer's Iliad and the beginning of the Odyssey, which had been treated only episocially by earlier epic and dramatic poets. -- Composing sometime between the late second and mid-fourth centuries AD, Quintus boldly adapts Homeric diction and style to suit the literary, moral, religious, rhetorical, and philosophical culture of the high Roman Empire and does not hesitate to diverge from the usual versions of the story in order to craft his own narrative vision.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language	Greek and English on opposite pages.
Genre/form	Epic poetry.
Genre/form	Epic poetry, Greek.
Genre/form	Epic poetry, Greek Translations into English.
Genre/form	Early works.
LCCN	2017956658
ISBN	0674997166
ISBN	9780674997165
Standard identifier#	9780674997165