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Contextualizing Quintus: The Fall of Troy and the Cultural Uses of the Paradoxical Cityscape in Posthomerica 13

2019; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 149; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/apa.2019.0005

2575-7199

Pavlos Avlamis,

Byzantine Studies and History

The article argues for a reader-oriented approach to the way Quintus of Smyrna (and other Imperial Greek poetry) can be placed in their synchronic literary context. The argument has a second, more specific goal: to show how such a reorientation can offer us a sense of the cultural work performed by the text, especially in terms of the ways in which one particular episode, the fall of Troy in book 13 of the Posthomerica, models and channels ideas about past and present, as well as Greek and Roman identity.