Returning to the Mountain of Arete: Reading Ecphrasis, Constructing Ethics in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. An Introduction to Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica 1
5. I The Epic Art of the Posthomerica: Poetics and Narrative Structure
6. Quintus Smyrnaeus und die Tradition des epischen Musenanrufs 29
7. The Use of Analepses and Prolepses in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica 65
8. Light and Darkness in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica 2 85
9. Die Poetik der Schilde: Form und Funktion von Ekphraseis in den Posthomerica des Quintus Smyrnaeus 107
10. II Quintus and his (Homeric) Models: Imitation and Innovation
11. Quintus of Smyrna and Virgil – A Matter of Prejudice 145
12. Ripresa della tradizione e innovazione compositiva: la medicina nei Posthomerica di Quinto Smirneo 159
13. Vorbild und aemulatio: An der Kreuzung von intertextuellen Bezügen in den Totenklagen dreier Frauen in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica: Briseis, Tekmessa und Oinone 185
14. III Cosmology, Ethics, and Heroism
15. Zur Rolle der Personifikationen des Schicksals in den Posthomerica des Quintus Smyrnaeus 211
16. Final Scenes in Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 14 241
17. Returning to the Mountain of Arete: Reading Ecphrasis, Constructing Ethics in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica 259
18. Fish in Battle? Quintus of Smyrna and the Halieutica of Oppian 285
19. More “Parfit Gentil Knyght” than “Hyrcanian Beast”: The Reception of Neoptolemos in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica 307
20. IV Quintus, the Second Sophistic and the Imperial Period
21. From the Epics to the Second Sophistic, from Hecuba to Aethra, and finally from Troy to Athens: Defining the Position of Quintus Smyrnaeus in his Posthomerica 339
22. Res Romanae: Cultural Politics in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica and Nonnus’ Dionysiaca 357
23. Nonnus, Quintus and the Sack of Troy 379
24. Wege und Formen, Umwege und Umformungen: Quintus Smyrnaeus und die Rezeption der Trojasage in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike 393
25. Abstracts 411
26. List of contributors 419
27. Bibliography 421
28. Indices 467