Code
01D27212
Duration
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Language studies
- Literary studies
Keywords
Quintus Smyrnaeus
Ancient Greek
Posthomerica
literature
intertextuality
Late Antiquity
Narratology
Epic
Late antiquity
Greek literature
Project description
The subject of my research project is the literary analysis of a late antique Greek author (Quintus of Smyrna), who figures in a contradictory literary tradition. I will investigate his literary position by means of a narratological analysis of his epic 'Posthomerica' and an intertextual comparison to relevant diachronic and synchronic sources, from Homer onwards.