Pub Date : 2007-01-31DOI: 10.1515/9783110942507.241
Aikaterini Carvounis
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Pub Date : 2007-01-31DOI: 10.1515/9783110942507.29
S. Bär
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Pub Date : 2007-01-31DOI: 10.1515/9783110942507.145
A. James
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Pub Date : 2007-01-31DOI: 10.1515/9783110942507.285
Emily Kneebone
If Walcott’s twentieth-century Omeros recasts the figures of the Trojan War as fishermen, Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica features two battle-heroes compared in detail to fishermen spearing fish. Quintus has long been both loathed and admired for the similes of his fourteen-book epic – even critics far from effusive about this “schlechteste Dichter des Altertums”,1 often accord him some merit in his similes, which are certainly varied and prodigious.2 Yet all too often his similes are labelled inappropriate, or dismissed as hackneyed and derivative.3 This paper focuses on one of Quintus’ more unusual similes, that of Neoptolemus as a night-fisherman (Q.S. 7.569-575). Looking first at the importance of Neoptolemus as the son of Achilles, heir to his father’s greatness and newcomer to this war, the simile is then read through the lens of Oppian’s Halieutica, that
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At some point during the third century A.D., a poet called Quintus (Κόϊντος) wrote an epic poem in a strongly Homerising hexameter style in which he renarrated the final events of the Trojan War, beginning (without a proem) where Homer’s Iliad ends, and recounting all the post-Iliadic events up to the sack of Troy and the nostos of the surviving Greek heroes. Accordingly, the poem was called τὰ μεѳ ̓ ̔́Ομηρον (or τὰ μετὰ τὸν ̔́Ομηρον, or οἱ μεѳ ̓ ̔́Ομηρον λόγοι).1 Thus, it apparently competed with the texts of the Epic Cycle which told the same stories. However, we do not know with certainty whether these texts were still accessible or already (partially) lost in the third century A.D.2 If they were lost, Quintus’ Posthomerica may have had the primary function of fulfilling the ‘public need’ for an epic poem to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey;3 on the other hand, even if the Epic Cycle was still in circulation at that time, Quintus could nevertheless have composed his ‘own version’. As to his biography, we know virtually nothing about our poet. The name Κόϊντος may or may not point to a Roman origin. In the first case, we might consider a possible parallel in Lucian of Samosata, who was of non-Greek provenance and whose native language was not Greek, but who was able to acquire Greek to such an extent that he wrote literature of the highest quality in this idiom. We may, however, view Quintus as one of the many Greeks who are known only by their Latin praenomen – a phenomenon which is characteristic not
{"title":"An Introduction to Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica","authors":"M. Baumbach, S. Bär","doi":"10.1515/9783110942507.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110942507.1","url":null,"abstract":"At some point during the third century A.D., a poet called Quintus (Κόϊντος) wrote an epic poem in a strongly Homerising hexameter style in which he renarrated the final events of the Trojan War, beginning (without a proem) where Homer’s Iliad ends, and recounting all the post-Iliadic events up to the sack of Troy and the nostos of the surviving Greek heroes. Accordingly, the poem was called τὰ μεѳ ̓ ̔́Ομηρον (or τὰ μετὰ τὸν ̔́Ομηρον, or οἱ μεѳ ̓ ̔́Ομηρον λόγοι).1 Thus, it apparently competed with the texts of the Epic Cycle which told the same stories. However, we do not know with certainty whether these texts were still accessible or already (partially) lost in the third century A.D.2 If they were lost, Quintus’ Posthomerica may have had the primary function of fulfilling the ‘public need’ for an epic poem to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey;3 on the other hand, even if the Epic Cycle was still in circulation at that time, Quintus could nevertheless have composed his ‘own version’. As to his biography, we know virtually nothing about our poet. The name Κόϊντος may or may not point to a Roman origin. In the first case, we might consider a possible parallel in Lucian of Samosata, who was of non-Greek provenance and whose native language was not Greek, but who was able to acquire Greek to such an extent that he wrote literature of the highest quality in this idiom. We may, however, view Quintus as one of the many Greeks who are known only by their Latin praenomen – a phenomenon which is characteristic not","PeriodicalId":106436,"journal":{"name":"Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130800055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-01-31DOI: 10.1515/9783110942507.185
Georgios P. Tsomis
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Pub Date : 2007-01-31DOI: 10.1515/9783110942507.307
B. Boyten
The son of Achilleus is a far more amiable fellow in Quintus than previous mythological accounts would lead us to expect. In fact, the prevalent tendency in the Posthomerica is for Neoptolemos to be portrayed against type in a positive light.5 Quintus manipulates the narrative and the characterization of Neoptolemos, and those involved with him in some way, to achieve this effect. Initially, I will consider this tendency in the Posthomerica in general. Then, I will focus on a specific instance which highlights this point; the killing of Priam, and the ‘substitute’ scenes: the killings of Ilioneos and Astyanax.6 Finally, to avoid oversimplifying Quintus’ treatment of the young hero, I will consider the rather more ambiguous portrayal, the Polyxena sacrifice episode, followed by a brief biography of Neoptolemos’ post-Troy narrative. Through making extensive use of inter-
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Pub Date : 2007-01-31DOI: 10.1515/9783110942507.159
Leyla Ozbek
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Pub Date : 2007-01-31DOI: 10.1515/9783110942507.85
A. Goția
Francis Vian, in the Notice which precedes his translation of book 2, mentioned the common structure of the first two books, a sign, according to him, of the intention of the poet to show their unity.1 I will analyze attentively the character of Memnon and the role that light and darkness, on the one hand, and colors, on the other, play in his fashioning, making frequent reference to Penthesileia. Book 1 finished with the expectation of Dawn (see Q.S. 1.830). Book 2 begins with the light of the sun which marks the new day, a day of joy for the Danaans, but a day of sorrow for the Trojans:
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Pub Date : 2007-01-31DOI: 10.1515/9783110942507.379
R. Shorrock
In book 40 of the Dionysiaca, Nonnus brings his detailed and highly imaginative rescripting of the Trojan War to an end. Nonnus was an Egyptian poet writing in Greek under the later Roman Empire (mid-late fifth century A.D.). His 48 book epic, the Dionysiaca, charts the struggles of Dionysus to earn a place for himself in heaven. It begins before his birth with the story of his grandfather Cadmus and concludes with his triumphant entry into heaven in book 48.1 Following a sevenyear siege, an unnamed city in Indian territory falls at last into the hands of Dionysus. The pivotal moment in the fall of the city is the death of the great Indian warrior Deriades – a scene that closely mirrors the death of Hector in Iliad 22:
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