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60618 results in Classical studies (general)

Page 147 of 3031

The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic
  • Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation
  • Emma Greensmith
  • Published online:
    23 September 2020
    Print publication:
    01 October 2020
  • This book offers a radically new reading of Quintus' Posthomerica, the first account to combine a literary and cultural-historical understanding of what is the most important Greek epic written at the height of the Roman Empire. In Emma Greensmith's ground-breaking analysis, Quintus emerges as a key poet in the history of epic and of Homeric reception. Writing as if he is Homer himself, and occupying the space between the Iliad and the Odyssey, Quintus constructs a new 'poetics of the interval'. At all levels, from its philology to its plotting, the Posthomerica manipulates the language of affiliation, succession and repetition not just to articulate its own position within the inherited epic tradition but also to contribute to the literary and identity politics of imperial society. This book changes how we understand the role of epic and Homer in Greco-Roman culture - and completely re-evaluates Quintus' status as a poet.

  • Two - Chronologies and Histories

  • Tamar Hodos, University of Bristol
  • Book:
    The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age
    Published online:
    12 September 2020
    Print publication:
    17 September 2020, pp 35-65

  • Summary

    The temporal focus of the present volume lies predominantly between c.1100 and c.600 BCE. In the chronologies of the disciplines of Near Eastern Archaeology and Greek Archaeology, this period is known as the Iron Age. This chapter explores the relationship between this absolute date range and its descriptor. In addressing when the Iron Age begins and ends, it also considers who the protagonists of this era are, and how have we identified them as such. None of these topics is straight-forward, however.

  • Coda

  • Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Preposterous Poetics
    Published online:
    27 August 2020
    Print publication:
    17 September 2020, pp 236-250

  • Summary

    I began this book by noting how the term ‘late antiquity’ has a polemical and persuasive force, which has been used by scholars not just to extend the boundaries of what is understood by the antiquity of Greco-Roman culture, temporally, spatially and linguistically, but also to open a debate about how tradition is to be conceptualized – a debate that necessarily invokes notions of self-placement and historical self-understanding for both ancient and modern writers. This book’s partial account of literary form across a long period from Augustus to tenth-century Byzantium has traced – performed – a contribution to this continuing narrative that explores what we understand by antiquity.

  • Six - Written Words

  • Tamar Hodos, University of Bristol
  • Book:
    The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age
    Published online:
    12 September 2020
    Print publication:
    17 September 2020, pp 182-208

  • Summary

    One of the most dramatic features of our connected Mediterranean Iron Age period is the use of writing by many of the populations across the sea with alphabets of a common origin. This is the first such occurrence in Mediterranean history. The mechanisms by which this happened, where and when have been the subject of considerable debate, given the particularly patchy nature of the evidence of writing during this period. Our preserved examples are on very durable materials, such as ceramic, stone or metal, although much more was likely written on perishable media, such as papyrus and parchment, which simply have not survived.

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