Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy 0674990226, 9780674990227

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QUINTUS —

we know him only by his first name — was a poet who lived at Smyrna some four hundred years after Christ.

for

His work, in fourteen books,

is

and generally underrated attempt in Homer's style to complete the story of Troy from the point at which the Iliad closes. Quintus tells us the stories of Penthesilea, the Amazonian queen; a bold

Memnon, death

leader of the Ethiopians; the

of

Achilles'

Achilles;

arms

Odysseus; the

between

arrival

the making of the

poem ends

the

contest

for

Ajax

and of Philoctetes; and

Wooden

Horse.

The

with the departure of the

Greeks and the great storm which by the wrath of heaven shattered their fleet.

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QUINTUS

SMYRNAEUS THE FALL OF TROY WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

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American ISBN 0-674-99022-6 British ISBN 434 99019 1 First printed 1913 Reprinted 1943, 1955, 1962, 1984

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