Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
Introduction / Robert Simms -- Trojan and Homeric Continuations. The odyssey after the Iliad: ties that bind / Elizabeth Minchin -- The Ilias Latina as a Roman continuation of the Iliad / Reinhold Glei -- Triphiodorus' The sack of Troy and Colluthus' The rape of Helen: a sequel and a prequel for late antiquity / Orestis Karavas -- Program and poetics in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica / Calum Maciver -- Teaching Homer through (annotated) poetry: John Tzetzes' Carmen Iliaca / Marta Cardin -- Joseph of Exeter: through Dictys and Dares / Francine Mora -- Robert Henryson's The testament of Cresseid: transtextual tragedy / Nickolas Haydock -- Trojan pasts, medieval presents: epic continuation in eleventh to thirteenth century genealogical histories / Adam J. Goldwyn -- Epic continuation as basis for moral education: The telemaque of Fenelon / Jardar Lohne -- Nikos Kazantzakis' Odysseia: the epic sequel in modern Greek poetry and classical reception / Martha Klironomos -- Spinning a thread of one's own from Homer to Atwood / Buket Akgun -- Beyond Troy and Homer. Squaring the epic cycle: Ovid's rewriting of the epic tradition in The metamorphoses / Mary Louise von Glinski -- Continuing the Aeneid in the first century: Ovid's Little Aeneid and Silius' Punica / Neil Bernstein -- Vegio's supplement: classical learning, Christian readings / Anne Rogerson -- Ending the Argonautica: Giovanni Battista Pio's Argonautica-supplement / Emma Buckley -- Redressing Caesar as Dido in Thomas May's Continuations of Lucan / Robert Simms -- Thomas Ross' translation and continuation of Silius Italicus' Punica in the English Restoration / Antony Augoustakis -- Epic Scotland: Wilkie, Macpherson and other Homeric efforts / Kristin Lindfield-Ott -- Virgil mentor: Ursula Le Guin's Llavinia / Nickolas Haydock