Maciver, Calum Alasdair. <br/><br/>
Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica  engaging Homer in late antiquity /  [electronic resource] : 
by Calum Alasdair Maciver. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  2012. 
 - viii, 224 p. 
 - Mnemosyne : supplements : monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature,  v. 343  0169-8958 ; .
 - Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava.  Supplementum ;  343. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Signs of the times: being Homer later -- Reading Quintus reading Homer -- A late antique aesthetic? -- (M)use-less singing: Quintus' art? -- Ecphrasis and the emblems of the past -- Reading directions in ecphrasis -- (Re-)reading the shield of Achilles -- Unfolding ecphrasis: the mountain of arete -- Speaking morality through gnomai -- Homeric voices? narrators and narratees -- Fate, gods, and the sayings of Nestor -- Posthomeric similes, Homeric likenesses -- Penthesileia: a new dawn -- Helen received, Helen judged -- Like father like son: comparing Neoptolemus. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2011. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><br/>In English, with some Greek and Latin. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Quintus, Smyrnaeus,  4th cent.  Posthomerica. <br/>Homer--Appreciation.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PA4407.Q6  / M26 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>883/.01