The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic - Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation

The first literary and cultural reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, a major Greek epic from the height of the Roman Empire which tells the story 'in between' Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and reveals the aesthetic and identity politics of the era. Important for understanding Homer and epic in Greco-Roman culture.