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

TY - JOUR

T1 - Contextualizing Quintus

T2 - The Fall of Troy and the Cultural Uses of the Paradoxical Cityscape in Posthomerica 13

AU - Avlamis, Pavlos

PY - 2019/5

Y1 - 2019/5

N2 - The article argues for a reader-orientated 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 PH, models ideas about past and present, as well as Greek and Roman identity.

AB - The article argues for a reader-orientated 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 PH, models ideas about past and present, as well as Greek and Roman identity.

U2 - 10.1353/apa.2019.0005

DO - 10.1353/apa.2019.0005

M3 - Article

SN - 2575-7180

VL - 149

SP - 149

EP - 208

JO - Transactions of the American Philological Association

JF - Transactions of the American Philological Association

IS - 1

ER -