| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Brill's companions to classical reception ; volume 15 |
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Brill's companions to classical reception ; v. 15.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Robert Simms -- Trojan and Homeric Continuations. The odyssey after the Iliad: ties that bind / Elizabeth Minchin -- The Ilias Latina as a Roman continuation of the Iliad / Reinhold Glei -- Triphiodorus' The sack of Troy and Colluthus' The rape of Helen: a sequel and a prequel for late antiquity / Orestis Karavas -- Program and poetics in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica / Calum Maciver -- Teaching Homer through (annotated) poetry: John Tzetzes' Carmen Iliaca / Marta Cardin -- Joseph of Exeter: through Dictys and Dares / Francine Mora -- Robert Henryson's The testament of Cresseid: transtextual tragedy / Nickolas Haydock -- Trojan pasts, medieval presents: epic continuation in eleventh to thirteenth century genealogical histories / Adam J. Goldwyn -- Epic continuation as basis for moral education: The telemaque of Fenelon / Jardar Lohne -- Nikos Kazantzakis' Odysseia: the epic sequel in modern Greek poetry and classical reception / Martha Klironomos -- Spinning a thread of one's own from Homer to Atwood / Buket Akgun -- Beyond Troy and Homer. Squaring the epic cycle: Ovid's rewriting of the epic tradition in The metamorphoses / Mary Louise von Glinski -- Continuing the Aeneid in the first century: Ovid's Little Aeneid and Silius' Punica / Neil Bernstein -- Vegio's supplement: classical learning, Christian readings / Anne Rogerson -- Ending the Argonautica: Giovanni Battista Pio's Argonautica-supplement / Emma Buckley -- Redressing Caesar as Dido in Thomas May's Continuations of Lucan / Robert Simms -- Thomas Ross' translation and continuation of Silius Italicus' Punica in the English Restoration / Antony Augoustakis -- Epic Scotland: Wilkie, Macpherson and other Homeric efforts / Kristin Lindfield-Ott -- Virgil mentor: Ursula Le Guin's Llavinia / Nickolas Haydock |
| Summary |
The epics of ancient Greece and Rome are unique in that many went unfinished, or if they were finished, remained open to further narration that was beyond the power, interest, or sometimes the life-span of the poet. Such incompleteness inaugurated a tradition of continuance and closure in their reception. This book explores this long tradition of continuing epics through sequels, prequels, retellings and spin-offs. The collection of essays brings together several noted scholars working in a variety of fields to trace the persistence of this literary effort from their earliest instantiations in the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer to the contemporary novels of Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 10, 2022) |
| Subject |
Classical literature -- History and criticism
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Epic literature -- History and criticism
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Classical literature -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
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Epic literature -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
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Literature -- Classical influences
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Classical literature
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Epic literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Simms, Robert, editor.
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| LC no. |
2018007031 |
| ISBN |
9789004360921 |
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9004360921 |
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