Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 14

by Katerina Carvounis

The Posthomerica, a Greek epic by Quintus of Smyrna believed to have been written in the third century AD, tells the story of the Trojan War beginning with the events immediately following the sack of Troy and the narrative of the Iliad. Valued as the earliest surviving account of this period, Book 14, the final book of the poem, covers much of the same ground as the lost Iliupersis (The Sack of Troy) attributed to Arctinus of Miletus, from Helen's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199565058
• ISBN13: 9780199565054
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"