Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica

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Quintus Smyrnaeus' *Posthomerica* is a late antique Greek epic poem that continues the narrative of the Trojan War from the end of Homer's *Iliad* to the fall of Troy, drawing on and expanding various mythological traditions.

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instanceOf Greek epic poem
ancient literary work
classical epic
aimsTo imitate Homeric language and style
author Quintus Smyrnaeus
basedOn Greek mythological traditions about the Trojan War
continuationOf Homer's Iliad
drawsOn cyclic Trojan epics such as the Aethiopis and the Iliou Persis
lost epics of the Epic Cycle
featuresCharacter Achilles
Aeneas
Agamemnon
Ajax son of Telamon
linked to: Telamonian Ajax

Andromache
Hecuba
Helen
Memnon
linked to: Memnon of Aethiopia

Menelaus
Neoptolemus
Odysseus
Penthesilea
Philoctetes
Priam
focusesOn events after the death of Hector
genre epic poetry
includesEpisode Trojan Horse stratagem
linked to: Trojan Horse

arrival of Neoptolemus at Troy
arrival of the Amazon Penthesilea at Troy
arrival of the Ethiopian king Memnon
death of Achilles
death of Memnon
death of Penthesilea
death of Priam
enslavement of Trojan women
fate of Astyanax
judgment over Achilles' arms
madness and suicide of Ajax
role of Philoctetes and the bow of Heracles
sack and destruction of Troy
language Ancient Greek
literaryPeriod Late Antiquity
metricalForm dactylic hexameter
narrativeScope events between the end of the Iliad and the fall of Troy
preservation survives complete in the medieval manuscript tradition
setting Trojan plain and surrounding regions
linked to: Trojan plain
structure continuous narrative without major internal breaks
style Homerizing
subject Trojan War
tradition post-Homeric Trojan War narrative

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Paris literarySource Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica
Posthomerica alsoKnownAs Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus
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Penthesilea appearsIn Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
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Memnon mentionedIn Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
subject linked to: Memnon (in later tradition)
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Polyxena mentionedIn Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica
Neoptolemus appearsInWork Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
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Ajax the Lesser mentionedIn Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica
Antilochus appearsIn Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica
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Oenone appearsIn Quintus Smyrnaeus’s Posthomerica
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Trojan plain appearsIn Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica
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Idomeneus mentionedIn Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica
Memnon of Aethiopia source Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
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tomb of Achilles describedIn Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
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