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xvi, 745 pages ; 17 cm Quintus Smyrnaeus's Posthomerica, composed between the late second and mid-fourth centuries AD, boldly adapts Homeric diction and style to fill in the story of the Trojan expedition between the end of the Iliad and the beginning of the Odyssey. This edition replaces the earlier Loeb Classical Library edition by A.S. Way (1913) 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 Includes bibliographical references and index

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Author

Quintus Smyrnaeus

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England: Harvard University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674997165

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Poetry

Rating

4.3 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14