The fall of Troy
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The fall of Troy
（The Loeb classical library, 19）
Harvard University Press , W. Heinemann, 1984
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Των μεθ ομηρον
Quintus Smyrnaeus : the fall of troy
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Bibliography and Bibliographical addendum(l984): p. x-xi
Greek text and English translation on opposite pages
First published in 1913
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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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