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The fall of Troy

Quintus Smyrnaeus ; with an English translation by Arthur S. Way

(The Loeb classical library, 19)

W. Heinemann , Macmillan, 1913

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Greek text and English translation on opposite pages

Later printing published: New York : G.P. Putnam, or Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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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  • NCID
    BA0083513X
  • ISBN
    • 0674990226
    • 0434990191
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    enggrc
  • Place of Publication
    London,New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 627 p.
  • Size
    17 cm
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