Title: A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13
Abstract: An overview of general scholarship up until ca.2007 can be found in Baumbach/Bär 2007a, 15-23.This publication has rightly been called a "real turning point in Quintus scholarship" (Scheijnen 2018, 14), since until then, source criticism was at the center of scholarly attention (see especially Gärtner 2005).Noteworthy publications since then include Silvio Bär's partial commentary on book 1 (Bär 2009), Calum Maciver's monograph on the relationship between the Posthomerica and the Homeric epics (Maciver 2012), and Tine Scheijnen's book on heroic characterization and heroism (Scheijnen 2018), who all aim at reading Quintus in his own right, either in the context of the Second Sophistic (see especially Bär 2010) or as part of Late Antiquity in general (see also Carvounis/Hunter 2009).Apart from Bär 2009 on book 1, there are several commentaries on other books of the Posthomerica: Campagnolo 2011 and Ferreccio 2014 on book 2, James/Lee 2000 on book 5, Tsomis 2018a on book 7, Tsomis 2018 on book 10, Campbell 1981 on book 12, and Carvounis 2019 on book 14.My work has greatly benefited from these predecessors, and I do not shy away from citing them amply.To my knowledge, Katia Barbarsco is currently working on a commentary on book 3, Leyla Ozbek on a commentary on book 9, and Stefanie Schmerbauch on a study of the funeral games in book 4. Birgit Breuer aims to investigate Hellenistic and Imperial traces