Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors viii
4. 1. Introduction: Going to Rome, Returning to Troy 1
5. Part I: Contexts and Poetics
6. 2. Temporality and Temper: Time, Narrative and Heroism in Quintus of Smyrna 15
7. 3. Poetry, Performance and Quintus’ Posthomerica 38
8. 4. A-Sexual Epic? Consummation and Closure in the Posthomerica 57
9. 5. Images of Life and Death: Visualising the Heroic Body in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica 75
10. Part II: Religion, Gods and Destiny
11. 6. A Non-Homeric Fate in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica? Representation, Function, Problems 95
12. 7. Disempowering the Gods 118
13. 8. Animal and Human Sacrifice in Quintus of Smyrna 138
14. Part III: Between Narratology and Lexicology
15. 9. A Narratological Study of the Role of the Fates in the Posthomerica 159
16. 10. Wielding Words: Neoptolemus as a Speaker of Words in Quintus’ Posthomerica 175
17. 11. Stepping out of Place: σχέτλιος in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica 194
18. 12. Renewing Homer with Homer: The Use of Epithets in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica 214
19. 13. Polychronic Intertextuality in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica 229
20. Part IV: The Struggle with the Literary Past
21. 14. The Dissolution of Troy: Homeric Narratology in the Posthomerica 245
22. 15. ‘Why So Serious?’ The Ambivalence of Joy and Laughter in the Iliad, Odyssey and Posthomerica 267
23. 16. Reshaping the Nature of Heroes: Heracles, Philoctetes and the Bow in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica 287
24. 17. Quintus and the Epic Cycle 298
25. Part V: Re-Readings and Re-Workings
26. 18. Philological Editor and Protestant Pedagogue: How Lorenz Rhodoman (1545‒1606) Worked on the Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus 319
27. 19. Too Homeric to Be True: John Tzetzes’ Reception of Quintus of Smyrna and the Importance of Plausibility 351
28. 20. A Postmodern Quintus? Theories of Fan Fiction and the Posthomerica 373
29. Bibliography 386
30. Index of Passages Cited 420
31. General Index 429