Brill's Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, 15)

The epics of ancient Greece and Rome are unique in that many went unfinished, or if they were finished, remained open to further narration that was beyond the power, interest, or sometimes the life-span of the poet. Such incompleteness inaugurated a tradition of continuance and closure in their reception. Brill's Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic explores this long tradition of continuing epics through sequels, prequels, retellings and spin-offs. This collection of essays brings together several noted scholars working in a variety of fields to trace the persistence of this literary effort from their earliest instantiations in the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer to the contemporary novels of Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood. ‎Contents......Page 5 ‎Notes on Contributors......Page 9 ‎Introduction (Simms)......Page 13 ‎Part 1. Trojan and Homeric Continuations......Page 19 ‎The Odyssey after the Iliad: Ties That Bind (Minchin)......Page 21 ‎The Ilias Latina as a Roman Continuation of the Iliad (Glei)......Page 43 ‎Triphiodorus’ The Sack of Troy and Colluthus’ The Rape of Helen: A Sequel and a Prequel from Late Antiquity (Karavas)......Page 64 ‎Program and Poetics in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica (Maciver)......Page 83 ‎Teaching Homer through (Annotated) Poetry: John Tzetzes’ Carmina Iliaca (Cardin)......Page 102 ‎Joseph of Exeter: Troy through Dictys and Dares (Mora-Lebrun)......Page 127 ‎Robert Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid: Transtextual Tragedy (Haydock)......Page 146 ‎Trojan Pasts, Medieval Presents: Epic Continuation in Eleventh to Thirteenth Century Genealogical Histories (Goldwyn)......Page 166 ‎Epic Continuation as Basis for Moral Education: The Télémaque of Fénelon (Lohne)......Page 187 ‎Nikos Kazantzakis’ Odysseia: The Epic Sequel in Modern Greek Poetry and Classical Reception (Klironomos)......Page 201 ‎Spinning a Thread of One’s Own from Homer to Atwood (Akgün)......Page 218 ‎Part 2. Beyond Troy and Homer......Page 237 ‎Squaring the Epic Cycle: Ovid’s Rewriting of the Epic Tradition in the Metamorphoses (von Glinski)......Page 239 ‎Continuing the Aeneid in the First Century: Ovid’s “Little Aeneid”, Lucan’s Bellum Civile, and Silius Italicus’ Punica (Bernstein)......Page 260 ‎Vegio’s Supplement: Classical Learning, Christian Readings (Rogerson)......Page 279 ‎Ending the Argonautica: Giovanni Battista Pio’s Argonautica-Supplement (1519) (Buckley)......Page 307 ‎Redressing Caesar as Dido in Thomas May’s Continuations of Lucan (Simms)......Page 328 ‎Thomas Ross’ Translation and Continuation of Silius Italicus’ Punica in the English Restoration (Augoustakis)......Page 347 ‎Epic Scotland: Wilkie, Macpherson and Other Homeric Efforts (Lindfield-Ott)......Page 369 ‎Virgil Mentor: Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia (Haydock)......Page 387 ‎Index......Page 405 The epics of ancient Greece and Rome are unique in that many went unfinished, or if they were finished, remained open to further narration that was beyond the power, interest, or sometimes the life-span of the poet. Such incompleteness inaugurated a tradition of continuance and closure in their reception. This book explores this long tradition of continuing epics through sequels, prequels, retellings and spin-offs. The collection of essays brings together several noted scholars working in a variety of fields to trace the persistence of this literary effort from their earliest instantiations in the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer to the contemporary novels of Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood [4e de couverture]