Guest Editor: Fotini Hadjittofi

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53700

1. Preface: Epic Heroism in Late Antiquity (Fotini Hadjittofi)
2. Let the Subaltern Speak: Libanius’ Rewriting of Epic Heroism (Jan R. Stenger)
3. “Arms and the Man I Praise”: The Emperor and the Hero in Late Antiquity (Catherine Ware)
4. Romanizing Heroes in Prudentius’ Peristephanon: Cyprian, Romanus, and Quirinus (Thomas Tsartsidis)
5. The Hyperborean Maidens and Rome’s New Hero: Heroization in Claudian’s “Epic Hunt” (Claud. Cons. Stil. 3.237–369) (Vicente Flores Militello)
6. Re-Echoing Hylas: Dracontius’ Myth and the Classical Tradition (Sophia Papaioannou)
7. Too Much . . . Too Little . . . Just Right: Adjustments of Dionysus’ Heroism in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca (Laura Miguélez-Cavero)
8. Achilles as an Ambivalent Hero in Late Antique Latin Poetry (William J. Dominik)
9. Short-Circuiting Heroism: Suicidal Achilles(es) in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica (Fotini Hadjittofi)
10. Achilles on the Mount of Olives: The Savior’s Agony in the Homeric Centos 1443–1616 (Anna Lefteratou)
11. Who is Speaking? A Computational Analysis of Homeric Heroic Voices in the Homerocentones (First Recension) (Berenice Verhelst)