Rewriting Homer: Dictys, Septimius and the (Re-)shaping of the Trojan

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6541
dc.contributor.author	Kaczko Sara
dc.title	Rewriting Homer: Dictys, Septimius and the (Re-)shaping of the Trojan War Material
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	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’.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Filologia e letteratura
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-12-16
dc.dateAccepted	2021-06-23
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-05-17
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-549-0/rewriting-homer-dictys-septimius-and-the-re-shapin/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-548-3/026
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-549-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-548-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Dares the Phrygian
dc.subject	Dares the Phrygian
dc.subject	Dictys of Crete
dc.subject	Dictys of Crete
dc.subject	Homer
dc.subject	Homer
dc.subject	Romance
dc.subject	Romance
dc.subject	Second Sophistic
dc.subject	Second Sophistic
dc.subject	Trojan War
dc.subject	Trojan War

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Rewriting Homer: Dictys, Septimius and the (Re-)shaping of the Trojan War Material

Sara Kaczko Sapienza Università di Roma, Italia

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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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Dec. 16, 2021

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June 23, 2021

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May 17, 2021

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978-88-6969-549-0

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978-88-6969-548-3

Keywords: Second Sophistic • Dictys of Crete • Dares the Phrygian • Romance • Homer • Trojan War

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