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Chapter 4 - When Homer Quotes Callimachus

The Proem (not) in the Middle

from Part II - Quintus as Quintus: Antagonism and Assimilation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2020

Emma Greensmith
Emma Greensmith
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University of Oxford
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Summary

Addresses the most intense programmatic section of the poem: the delayed proem of Book 12. Rather than reading it in the light of current Quintan scholarship, as an indication of Alexandrian indebtedness, the chapter puts forward a new anti-Alexandrian interpretation. Shows Quintus reconfiguring symbolic imagery from Callimachus’ Aetia to create a pointedly un-Callimachean programme and emphasises the Homeric core of the ‘anti-epic’ voice.

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ProemCallimachusAetiaAlexandrianHesiodProgrammaticSheep
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The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic
Quintus Smyrnaeus' <I>Posthomerica</I> and the Poetics of Impersonation
 , pp. 157 - 188
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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