- Type:
- Book Chapter
- Author:
- Sara Kaczko
- Published:
- 2021
- Publisher:
- Edizioni Ca’ Foscari
The present paper deals with variation in and (re-)use of ancient sources, chiefly epics, in the fictional chronicle of the Trojan War composed by ‘Dictys of Crete’ and its Latin adaptation, the Ephemeris belli Troiani , by a certain L. Septimius, both dating to the Roman Empire. I discuss how the authors of these texts used inconsistencies in the literary tradition and their own invention to characterise the heroes of the Trojan War in ways that ‘correct’ Homer and allow insertion of adventure and ‘romance’.
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- What is "Rewriting Homer: Dictys, Septimius and the (Re-)shaping of the Trojan War Material" about?
- The present paper deals with variation in and (re-)use of ancient sources, chiefly epics, in the fictional chronicle of the Trojan War composed by ‘Dictys of Crete’ and its Latin adaptation, the Ephemeris belli Troiani , by a certain L.
- Who wrote "Rewriting Homer: Dictys, Septimius and the (Re-)shaping of the Trojan War Material"?
- Sara Kaczko