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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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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 episodically 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. This edition of the Posthomerica replaces the earlier Loeb
Classical Library edition by A. S. Way (1913) with an updated text
based on that of F. Vian, and fresh translation, introduction, and
bibliography that take account of more than a century of
intervening scholarship.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This Book Is In Latin. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this
book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of
the original text, possible missing pages, missing text and other
issues beyond our control.
This Book Is In Latin. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this
book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of
the original text, possible missing pages, missing text and other
issues beyond our control.
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