The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic Greensmith Hardback

The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek EpicQuintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation\nAuthor(s): Emma Greensmith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108830331, 978-1108830331\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a radically new reading of Quintus' Posthomerica, the first account to combine a literary and cultural-historical understanding of what is the most important Greek epic written at the height of the Roman Empire. In Emma Greensmith's ground-breaking analysis, Quintus emerges as a key poet in the history of epic and of Homeric reception. Writing as if he is Homer himself, and occupying the space between the Iliad and the Odyssey, Quintus constructs a new 'poetics of the interval'. At all levels, from its philology to its plotting, the Posthomerica manipulates the language of affiliation, succession and repetition not just to articulate its own position within the inherited.