The Fall of Troy

Resource Information

The work The Fall of Troy represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Fall of Troy

Statement of responsibility

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

Creator

• Quintus, Smyrnaeus, active 4th century

Contributor

• Way, Arthur S., (Arthur Sanders), 1847-1930

Author

• Quintus, Smyrnaeus, active 4th century

Translator

• Way, Arthur S., (Arthur Sanders), 1847-1930

Subject

• Troy (Extinct city) -- Poetry
• Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into English
• Trojan War -- Poetry

Genre

• Translations into English
• Poetry

Language

• eng
• grc
• grc
• eng

Summary

In The Fall of Troy, Quintus Smyrnaeus (Fourth century CE?) seeks to continue in Homer's style the tale of Troy from the point at which the Iliad closes. Quintus's fourteen-book epic poem includes the death of Achilles and the making of the Wooden Horse. It ends with the great storm that by the wrath of heaven shattered the departing Achaean fleet.

Member of

• Loeb Classical Library, 19

Assigning source

Provided by Publisher

Cataloging source

MaCbHUP

Language note

Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages

Literary form

poetry

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Loeb classical library online

Summary expansion

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--

Target audience

general