num_pages: 640
description: 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.
language: Multiple languages
title: The Fall of Troy
titlecomplete: The Fall of Troy
genres: Epic, Classics, History, Classical Studies, Ancient, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Literature, Poetry, Greece
ratings_count: 555
publisher: Harvard University Press