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Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica (3rd century C.E.) is of great literary value to the field of Greek epic. It is a stylistic imitation of Homer and recounts what Iliad and Odyssey have left untold of the Trojan War. Tine Scheijnen offers the first linear study of this still little-known poem. Progressing from book 1 to 14, she focusses on key issues such as Homeric similes and characterization of heroes (especially Achilles and his son Neoptolemus). Ideologically, Quintus engages in a critical way with Homer, but possibly also Vergil, Triphiodorus and tragedy. Scheijnen's work can be read as a thorough introduction to Quintus' Posthomerica, while also offering new insights into Homer reception, the conception of heroes and heroism in Greek epic.

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Im Mittelpunkt stehen Betrachtungen uber das episch- heroische Heldenbild, und diese werden durchgehend mit der Methodik des intertextuellen bzw. intratextuellen Vergleichs durchgefuhrt (...) Sprachlich ist das Buch mit einer Sorgfalt gestaltet, die man selten in Werken mit so umfangreichen griechischen Zitaten findet Thomas Gartner, BMCR 2019.06.46.

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Tine Scheijnen, PhD (2016), Ghent University, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Literary Studies (Greek section) of that university. She studies the characterization of heroes and the construction of heroism in late antique and medieval literary texts.

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