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Chapter 3 - Writing Homer

Language, Composition and Style

from Part I - Quintus as Homer: Illusion and Imitation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2020

Emma Greensmith
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University of Oxford
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Assesses how Quintus’ interval poetics is revealed in the compositional components of the poem. Analyses the formal aspects of the Posthomerica: vocabulary, formulae, similes and gnomai. Argues that rather than constituting imitatio cum uariatione, these features offer the reader a series of lenses through which to view the poet’s conception of the Homeric text and his understanding of his role in creating more of it.

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The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic
Quintus Smyrnaeus' <I>Posthomerica</I> and the Poetics of Impersonation
, pp. 93 - 154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Writing Homer
  • Emma Greensmith, University of Oxford
  • Book: The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic
  • Online publication: 23 September 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108907200.003
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  • Writing Homer
  • Emma Greensmith, University of Oxford
  • Book: The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic
  • Online publication: 23 September 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108907200.003
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  • Writing Homer
  • Emma Greensmith, University of Oxford
  • Book: The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic
  • Online publication: 23 September 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108907200.003
Available formats
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