A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13

Abstract

This study was made possible by a three year Ph.D. grant from the Doktorandenkolleg Geisteswissenschaften at the University of Hamburg. Funding from this grant allowed for conference presentations in Leeds, Oxford, Shanghai, and Vancouver, along with a stay as a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford in fall 2017. I would like to express my gratitude to all those who facilitated these opportunities for me to grow both as a scholar and as a person.I am entirely grateful to my advisors, Christian Brockmann (University of Hamburg) and Sabine Vogt (University of Bamberg). My dissertation benefited greatly from working under their tutelage, and I am most thankful for the academic freedom and circumspect guidance they have given me throughout these past years. I would also like to thank Marc Föcking and Claudia Schindler for their support during my time at the University of Hamburg and Fiona Macintosh for her invitation to Oxford. Furthermore, I am most grateful again to Sabine Vogt and the Classics Department at Bamberg for a generous allowance supporting the publication of this book.Finally, I thank Andrea Bartl and her fellow editors for accepting my study for this series, Christine van Eickels and Barbara Ziegler for their help in all technical aspects of the publication, and the University of Bamberg Press for their vision in supporting Open Access.