The Fall of Troy L019 (Trans. Way) (Greek): No 19 (Loeb Classical Library) - Hardcover

Quintus Smyrnae

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674990226 ISBN 13: 9780674990227

Publisher: Loeb, 1989

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Loeb
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674990226
• ISBN 13: 9780674990227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 640