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"The Posthomerica, a Greek epic by Quintus of Smyrna believed to have been written in the third century AD, tells the story of the Trojan War beginning with the events immediately following the sack of Troy and the narrative of the Iliad. Valued as the earliest surviving account of this period, Book 14, the final book of the poem, covers much of the same ground as the lost Iliupersis (The Sack of Troy) attributed to Arctinus of Miletus, from Helen's return to Menelaus and the sacrifice of Polyxena, to the homeward journey of the victorious Greeks, which is abruptly interrupted by a divine storm. This detailed commentary divides the text of Posthomerica 14 into smaller narrative units, introducing each with an overview of the relevant literary tradition and a discussion of Quintus' possible direct models. There follows an exhaustive line-by-line commentary addressing points of literary, stylistic, lexicographic, and textual-critical interest, and providing readers with a range of notes on background and vocabulary. The aim throughout is not only to illuminate the main features of Quintus' poetry, but also to offer as full an interpretation as possible of Posthomerica 14 within both its contemporary literary context and also in dialogue with the earlier tradition, in particular the diction, motifs, and narrative and literary techniques of the Homeric poems and the earlier epic tradition more generally. For readers new to the Posthomerica, the volume also includes a thorough, and up-to-date introduction offering an accessible overview of the poems content, dates, context, models, and possible sources, including both the Epic Cycle and Latin literature."--

Trojan War --- Troy (Extinct city) --- Quintus, --- Epic poetry, Greek --- Epic poetry, Greek. --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- Trojan War. --- Posthomerica (Quintus, Smyrnaeus). --- Turkey --- History and criticism --- Literature and the war --- Quintus Smyrnaeus --- Cointus Smyrnaeus --- Quintus van Smyrna --- Quintus of Smyrna --- Quinto di Smirne

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How was the unique character of the island of Cyprus perceived in antiquity? This volume aims to engage with this question by examining references to Cyprus in ancient texts and by exploring authors connected to the island. The readers can thus find literary interpretations on a wide range of Greek and Latin texts focusing on Cyprus by world-leading Classical scholars, which will cast further light on the literary and cultural tradition of the island. The book promises to motivate further exploration of these topics and of the influence of a place in ancient literature and beyond.

Classical literature --- Littérature ancienne --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Cyprus --- In literature. --- History --- Sources --- Sources.

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This volume offers an innovative exploration of the diverse ways in which Later Greek Epic interacts with the Latin literary tradition. A comprehensive introduction on the "status quaestionis" is followed by seven chapters that focus on key texts of Imperial hexameter poetry, and offer original perspectives on established cultural relationships between the Greek and the Latin epic traditions, at a time when the understanding of these relationships is being reassessed.

Intertextuality --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Epic poetry, Greek --- Greek literature --- Intertextuality. --- History and criticism. --- Roman influences. --- Roman influences

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Nonnus of Panopolis (fifth century CE) composed two poems once thought to be incompatible: the Dionysiaca, a mythological long epic with a marked interest in astrology, the occult, the paradox and not least the beauty of the female body, and a pious and sublime Paraphrase of the Gospel of St John. Little is known about the man, to whom sundry identities have been attached. The longer work has been misrepresented as a degenerate poem or as a mythological handbook. The Christian poem has been neglected or undervalued. Yet, Nonnus accomplished an ambitious plan, in two parts, aiming at representing world-history. This volume consists mainly of the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Nonnus held in Rethymno, Crete in May 2011. With twentyfour essays, an international team of specialists place Nonnus firmly in his time's context. After an authoritative Introduction by Pierre Chuvin, chapters on Nonnus and the literary past, the visual arts, Late Antique paideia, Christianity and his immediate and long-range afterlife (to modern times) offer a wide-ranging and innovative insight into the man and his world. The volume moves on beyond stereotypes to inaugurate a new era of research for Nonnus and Late Antique poetics on the whole.

Nonnus, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 875-13 <09> --- 875-13 <09> Griekse literatuur: epiek--Geschiedenis van ... --- Griekse literatuur: epiek--Geschiedenis van ... --- Conferences - Meetings --- Epic poetry, Greek --- Classical literature --- Poésie épique grecque --- Littérature ancienne --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Criticism and interpretation --- Congresses. --- Griekse literatuur: epiek--Geschiedenis van .. --- Griekse literatuur: epiek--Geschiedenis van . --- Nonnus of Panopolis. --- Nonnus von Panopolis. --- Spätantike. --- late antiquity. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Nonno, --- Nonnos, --- Nonnus Panopolitanus --- Panopolis, Nonnus of --- Pseudo-Nonnos --- Byzantine literature --- Griekse literatuur: epiek--Geschiedenis van --- Nonnus --- of Panopolis --- History and criticism. --- Nonnus, - of Panopolis - Criticism and interpretation - Congresses. --- Byzantine literature - History and criticism --- Nonnus, - of Panopolis