Eris epica: sanguinaria e (sempre?) imparziale

This chapter examines the figure of Eris in Quintus Smyrnaeus' *Posthomerica*, analyzing the epithets used by the author to characterize her and seeking to determine in which passages she appears as a personification or as a true deity. To this end, selected Homeric passages and their corresponding *scholia*, focusing on the identity of Eris and other deities or personifications of battle and fate, are compared. The study also explores how such personifications are incorporated into the battle scenes of the *Posthomerica*, interpreting this as a device employed by Quintus to enrich the depiction of these episodes, akin to other typical battle motifs, such as the blood of the fallen soaking the earth and the heaps of corpses cluttering the plain.