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Language: English
Published by Harvard University Press, 1913
- Hardcover
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Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) / London, 1984. Reprint 1st ed. 1913. XII,628p. Original green gilt stamped cloth with dust wrappers. Name and date on free end paper. Series: Loeb Classical Library, LCL 19. Nice copy.
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- Title
- The Fall of Troy. With an English translation by A.S. Way.
- Author
- QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS,
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication year
- 1913
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674990226
- ISBN 13
- 9780674990227
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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