Preface; Introduction; Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica; Chapter One. Signs of the Times: Being Homer Later; i. Reading Quintus Reading Homer; ii. A Late Antique Aesthetic?; iii. (M)use-less Singing: Quintus' Art?; Chapter Two. Ecphrasis and the Emblems of the Past; i. Reading Directions in Ecphrasis; ii. (Re- )reading the Shield of Achilles; iii. Unfolding Ecphrasis: The Mountain of Arete; Chapter Three. Speaking Morality through Gnomai; i. Homeric Voices? Narrators and Narratees; ii. Fate, Gods, and the Sayings of Nestor; Chapter Four. Posthomeric Similes, Homeric Likenesses
I. Penthesileia: A New Dawnii. Helen Received, Helen Judged; iii. Like Father like Son: Comparing Neoptolemus; Afterword; Bibliography; General Index; Index Locorum
This book, the first monograph in English on Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica in over a century, offers a comprehensive study of the poem's poetics and narrative, with a specific focus on the interaction between its Homeric intertextuality and Late Antique influences
