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The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic : Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Editions, Translations and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Beginning Again (Introduction): The Poetics of Impersonation -- 1.1 Prologue: Still Homer? -- 1.2...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Online-Ressource Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge
: University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
, 2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Greek Culture in the Roman World Ser
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| Online Zugang: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6360437 |
| E-Book-Pakete: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Editions, Translations and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Beginning Again (Introduction): The Poetics of Impersonation -- 1.1 Prologue: Still Homer? -- 1.2 Opposition in Imitation -- 1.3 Silver Latin, Imperial Greek? -- 1.4 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity -- 1.5 Silver Latin ≠ Imperial Greek? -- 1.6 (Non) Parallels: Poetic Impersonation -- 1.7 Homer and the Performance of the Past -- 1.8 (Post) Latourian Quintus -- 1.9 Structure, Scope and Sources -- 1.10 Terms of Engagement: 'Intertextuality', 'Theory', 'Metapoetics' -- Part I Quintus as Homer: Illusion and Imitation -- Chapter 2 Enlarging the Space: Imperial Doubleness, Fixity, Expansion -- 2.1 Being and Not Being -- 2.2 Declamation: What Demosthenes Would Have Said -- 2.3 The Progymnasmata: Practising Expansion -- 2.4 Homeric Performance: Scripts and Spoofs -- 2.5 Quintus' Homeric Performance: Songs within the Song -- 2.6 Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Writing Homer: Language, Composition and Style -- 3.1 Introduction: Omerico Ma (Non) Troppo? -- 3.2 Language and Formulae -- Language -- Homeric Rarities -- Neologisms -- Formulae and Epithets -- Variety of Epithets -- 'Generic' Epithets -- 3.3 Gnomai and Similes -- Gnomai -- Similes -- 3.4 Conclusions -- Part II Quintus as Quintus: Antagonism and Assimilation -- Chapter 4 When Homer Quotes Callimachus: The Proem (not) in the Middle -- 4.1 Introduction: Quintus' Quale -- 4.2 Imperial Greek Epic and Callimachus: Locating the Slender Muse -- 4.3 One Continuous Song -- 4.4 Muses and Knowledge -- 4.5 Youth -- 4.6 Topography and Grandeur -- 4.7 Tending Famous Sheep -- 4.8 Conclusions: Declassifying Quintus -- Chapter 5 Selective Memory and Iliadic Revision -- 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Selective Memory and Poetic Selectivity -- 5.3 Reported Memories: Homer et cetera -- 5.4 Memories in Speech: Self-Motivated Selections -- 5.5 Conclusions -- Chapter 6 Prodigal Poetics: Filiation and Succession -- 6.1 The Ever-Present Anxiety? -- 6.2 Epic Ecology: Quintus' Successional Space -- 6.3 Antagonising Antagonism -- Opening Contenders: Penthesilea, Achilles, Ajax -- Memnon and Achilles: Flyting against Filiation -- Eurypylus: Grandpaternal Poetics -- 6.4 Alternative Relations: Succession through Impersonation -- Armour and the Mimetic Double -- Filial Speech: against 'Source Citation' -- Necromancy and Filial Possession -- Wayward Athena: Concluding Succession -- 6.5 Conclusions -- Chapter 7 Temporality and the Homeric Not Yet -- 7.1 Imperial Timing -- 7.2 Pacing: Acceleration and Delay -- 7.3 Straining: Plot Control and the Counterfactual -- 7.4 Bending: Anachrony and Prolepsis -- 7.5 Unravelling . . . or Un-ending -- 7.6 Final Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum for Resurrection of Homer -- Subject index for Resurrection of Homer. Provides the first literary and cultural-historical analysis of the most important third-century Greek epic, Quintus' Posthomerica |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (402 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108908429 |
