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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.
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In The Fall of Troy, Quintus Smyrnaeus (Fourth century CE?) seeks to continue in Homer’s style the tale of Troy from the point at which the Iliad closes. Quintus’s fourteen-book epic poem includes the death of Achilles and the making of the Wooden Horse. It ends with the great storm that by the wrath of heaven shattered the departing Achaean fleet.
Loeb Classical Library #019: The Fall of Troy
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Smyrnaeus Quintus
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In The Fall of Troy, Quintus Smyrnaeus (Fourth century CE?) seeks to continue in Homer’s style the tale of Troy from the point at which the Iliad closes. Quintus’s fourteen-book epic poem includes the death of Achilles and the making of the Wooden Horse. It ends with the great storm that by the wrath of heaven shattered the departing Achaean fleet.
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