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The Fall of Troy
Quintus Smyrnaeus · translated by Arthur S. Way
The story Homer's Iliad leaves untold — the death of Achilles, the wooden horse, and the fall of Troy itself — an epic written centuries after Homer to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey, drawing on the same oral traditions Homer himself once drew from.
Quintus Smyrnaeus composed the Posthomerica in Greek, probably in the fourth century AD; Arthur S. Way's English verse translation was first published as The Fall of Troy in 1913.
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Contents
- Note
- Introduction
- Book I — How died for Troy the Queen of the Amazons, Penthesileia
- Book II — How Memnon, Son of the Dawn, for Troy’s sake fell in the Battle
- Book III
- Book IV — How in the Funeral Games of Achilles heroes contended
- Book V
- Book VI
- Book VII
- Book VIII — How Hercules’ Grandson perished in fight with the Son of Achilles
- Book IX
- Book X
- Book XI
- Book XII
- Book XIII
- Book XIV
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Quintus Smyrnaeus, or Quintus of Smyrna, was a Greek epic poet known only through his surviving work, the Posthomerica, a continuation of Homer's Iliad recounting the Trojan War between the death of Hector and the fall of Troy. Almost nothing is known of his life beyond his name and an apparent connection to Smyrna in Asia Minor; his dates are uncertain, but most scholars place him in the fourth century AD.
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