0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE

Buy Now

The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic - Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,873
Discovery Miles 38 730
The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic - Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation...

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

Emma Greensmith

Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R3,873 Discovery Miles 38 730 | Repayment Terms: R363 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days

This book offers a radically new reading of Quintus' Posthomerica, the first account to combine a literary and cultural-historical understanding of what is the most important Greek epic written at the height of the Roman Empire. In Emma Greensmith's ground-breaking analysis, Quintus emerges as a key poet in the history of epic and of Homeric reception. Writing as if he is Homer himself, and occupying the space between the Iliad and the Odyssey, Quintus constructs a new 'poetics of the interval'. At all levels, from its philology to its plotting, the Posthomerica manipulates the language of affiliation, succession and repetition not just to articulate its own position within the inherited epic tradition but also to contribute to the literary and identity politics of imperial society. This book changes how we understand the role of epic and Homer in Greco-Roman culture - and completely re-evaluates Quintus' status as a poet.

General

Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World
Release date: October 2020
Authors: Emma Greensmith
Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-83033-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Promotions
LSN: 1-108-83033-1
Barcode: 9781108830331

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Atlantic Europe in the First Millennium…
Tom Moore, Xose-Lois Armada Hardcover R7,907 Discovery Miles 79 070
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture
Elise A Friedland, Melanie Grunow Sobocinski, … Hardcover R5,801 Discovery Miles 58 010
Statius, Thebaid 2 - Edited with an…
Kyle Gervais Hardcover R5,639 Discovery Miles 56 390
Religions of the Constantinian Empire
Mark Edwards Hardcover R1,950 Discovery Miles 19 500
The Global History of Paleopathology…
Jane Buikstra, Charlotte Roberts Hardcover R7,633 Discovery Miles 76 330
The Oxford Handbook of Plato
Gail Fine Hardcover R5,772 Discovery Miles 57 720
The Epistle to Diognetus (with the…
Clayton N. Jefford Hardcover R6,883 Discovery Miles 68 830
Polytheism and Society at Athens
Robert Parker Hardcover R6,538 Discovery Miles 65 380
Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus…
Luca Grillo Hardcover R3,768 Discovery Miles 37 680
A Commentary on Livy Books 41-45
John Briscoe Hardcover R11,191 Discovery Miles 111 910
Traversing Eternity - Texts for the…
Mark Smith Hardcover R10,034 Discovery Miles 100 340
Monumentality and the Roman Empire…
Edmund Thomas Hardcover R11,082 Discovery Miles 110 820

See more

Partners