Quintus of Smyrna's 'Posthomerica'

Silvio Bär is Professor of Classics at the University of Oslo. His research areas and interests include Greek hexameter poetry (especially of the imperial period), tragedy, lyric, the novel, mythology, rhetoric, the Second Sophistic, intertextuality, transtextuality, diachronic narratology, and the reception of antiquity in English literature and popular culture. He has published widely on Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica, on the genre 'epyllion', and on the character of Herakles in Greek epic and beyond.
Emma Greensmith is Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John's College. She specialises in imperial Greek literature and is particularly interested in epic, poetics and religion. Her recent book, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (CUP, 2020) offers a new reading of the role of epic and the reception of Homer in Graeco-Roman culture. She has also written recent articles on Nonnus, Gregory of Nazianzus and the Sibylline Oracles and is editing a new Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic.
Leyla Ozbek is Research Fellow of Greek Language and Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. She obtained her PhD in Classics at the Scuola Normale with a dissertation on Quintus' Posthomerica Book 9, now forthcoming for publication. She has been research fellow at the Scuola Normale and annual visiting scholar at the University College London and at the University of Zurich. In 2015-2016 she was Research Associate at the University of Cambridge on the AHRC-funded Project 'Greek Epic of the Roman Empire: A Cultural History'. Her research interests are Greek epic and culture of the imperial period, Greek tragedy and fragments, papyrology and the study of ancient manuscripts transmission.