Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Loeb Classical Library No. 19)

Quintus Smyrnaeus

ISBN 10: 0674990226 / ISBN 13: 9780674990227

Published by Harvard University Press, 1913

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Loeb Classical Library No. 19)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1913
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674990226
• ISBN 13: 9780674990227
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Quintus was a poet who lived at Smyrna some four hundred years after Christ. His work, in fourteen books, is a bold 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; Memnon, leader of the Ethiopians; the death of Achilles; the contest for Achilles' arms between Ajax and Odysseus; the arrival of Philoctetes; and the making of the Wooden Horse. The poem ends with the departure of the Greeks and the great storm which by the wrath of heaven shattered their fleet.