Silvio Bär, "Quintus of Smyrna's 'Posthomerica': Writing Homer Under Rome"
English | ISBN: 1474493580 | 2022 | 448 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This collection offers a new collaborative reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica: one of the most important Greek epics written at the height of the Roman Empire. Building on the surge of interest in imperial Greek poetry seen in the past decades, this book applies new approaches - literary, theoretical and historical - to ask new questions about this mysterious, challenging poet and to re-evaluate his role in the cultural history of his time.