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Quintus Smyrnaeus (also Quintus of Smyrna; Greek: Κόϊντος Σμυρναῖος, Kointos Smyrnaios) was a Greek epic poet whose Posthomerica, following "after Homer", continues the narration of the Trojan War. The dates of Quintus Smyrnaeus' life and poetry are disputed: by tradition, he is thought to have lived in the latter part of the 4th century AD, but early dates have also been proposed.[1]
His epic in fourteen books, known as the Posthomerica, covers the period between the end of Homer's Iliad and the end of the Trojan War. Its primary importance is as the earliest surviving work to cover this period, the archaic works in the Epic Cycle, which he knew and drew upon, having been lost. His materials are borrowed from the cyclic poems from which Virgil (with whose works he was probably acquainted) also drew, in particular the Aethiopis (Coming of Memnon) and the Iliupersis (Destruction of Troy) of Arctinus of Miletus, and the Ilias Mikra (Little Iliad) of Lesches.[2] His work is closely modeled on Homer.[3]
QuintusSmyrnaeus (also Quintus of Smyrna; Greek: Κόϊντος Σμυρναῖος, Kointos Smyrnaios) was a Greek epic poet whose Posthomerica, following "after Homer"...
Pythian vi. 30. QuintusSmyrnaeus ii. 224. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.75.4. Pausanias 1.13.9. Euripides, Hecuba 40. QuintusSmyrnaeus, Posthomerica...
loud-piping Zephyrus on a harpy (probably Podarge), as attested by QuintusSmyrnaeus. The most celebrated story in which the harpies play a part is that...
meadow near the banks of the Ocean, implied in the form of a mare. QuintusSmyrnaeus also says that by a Harpy he had Arion, the talking horse. Like with...
or, variably, the Gates of Alexander, south of the Caspian Sea. QuintusSmyrnaeus, author of the Posthomerica lists the attendant warriors of Penthesilea:...
Svarlien. 1990. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. QuintusSmyrnaeus, QuintusSmyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy, Translator: A.S. Way; Harvard University...
Dionysiaca mentions a distinct set of four Horae, the daughters of Helios. QuintusSmyrnaeus also attributes the Horae as the daughters of Helios and Selene, and...
Number 4, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, 2010. PDF. QuintusSmyrnaeus, QuintusSmyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy, translated by A.S. Way, Cambridge, Massachusetts...
sources give different numbers: The Bibliotheca 50; Tzetzes 23; and QuintusSmyrnaeus gives the names of 30, but says there were more. In late tradition...
the temple of Ares at Athens. Enyo is called the "sister of War" by QuintusSmyrnaeus, in a role closely resembling that of Eris, the embodiment of strife...
Hysmine was called daughter of the primordial deities Aether and Gaia. QuintusSmyrnaeus depicted the Hysminae along with other daemons of war on the shield...
from this source, which is in the public domain. QuintusSmyrnaeus, Posthomerica 6.351 QuintusSmyrnaeus, Posthomerica 6.348–359 This article incorporates...
Hector being brought back to the city. In The Fall of Troy, told by QuintusSmyrnaeus, Cassandra attempted to warn the Trojan people that Greek warriors...
and Zeus together plotted the start of the Trojan War. According to QuintusSmyrnaeus, when the gods defied the orders of Zeus and started fighting each...
Pergamon] (in German). Berlin: Staatliche Museem zu Berlin. pp. 23–24. QuintusSmyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 12.189 LIMC 363 Lucian, Dialogues of the Sea Gods 7:...
13.260 ff. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1222 Iliad, repeated appearances QuintusSmyrnaeus, Book 1 Hyginus, Fabulae 114 Thus the Encyclopædia Britannica s. v...
father of Hecuba. Dymas, perhaps the same as the first. According to QuintusSmyrnaeus this Dymas was the father of Meges, a Trojan whose sons fought at...
Press, 1990. Online version at Harvard University Press. QuintusSmyrnaeus, QuintusSmyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy, Translator: A.S. Way; Harvard University...
account, is the daughter of Eros. Elsewhere, the late Greek poet QuintusSmyrnaeus mentions Nyx as the mother of Eos (Dawn), while according to Byzantine...
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