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Triphiodorus: The Sack of Troy. A General Introduction and Commentary

This commentary analyses the Sack of Troy by the Graeco-Egyptian third-century poet Triphiodorus. The introduction focuses on the reasons behind the choice of topic, the poem’s outline, different forms of allusion, the use of the characterisation of individuals and groups to sustain plot development, the nature of the narrator and the value of speeches. The line-by-line commentary poem attends to the position of each episode in the poem and in the tradition of the Trojan War and offers a linguistic, formal and stylistic analysis. It was written over three years as a postdoctoral project. Word count: approximately 200,000 words.