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'Strange appearance' : the reception of Homer in Renaissance England
This thesis investigates the presence of Homer in the literary culture of Renaissance England. It seeks to identify how the Iliad and the Oqyssry, virtually unread by anyone in early 16th_century England, went on to become well-known texts by the mid-17th century. The thesis focuses on literary …
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A Study of Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis as Early Imperial Greek Texts and Late Antique Latin Translations
This thesis examines the literary context of Dares Phrygius’ De Excidio Troiae Historia and Dictys Cretensis’ Ephemeris Belli Troiani, in order to understand the authors’ motives, target audience, and textual influences. It analyses separately the Greek originals and their Latin translations, which …
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Homer in the Perfect Tense: The Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus and the Poetics of Impersonation
The thesis has been written as part of the AHRC collaborative research project Greek Epic of the Roman Empire: A Cultural History. This project seeks to give the first cultural-historical analysis of the large, underexploited corpus of Greek epic poetry composed in the transformative period between …