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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica canonical | 2 |
| Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica | 2 |
| Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4826316 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica Context triple: [Paris, literarySource, Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica]
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A.
Encomium of Helen
Encomium of Helen is a famous sophistic speech by the ancient Greek rhetorician Gorgias that defends Helen of Troy and showcases the persuasive power of rhetoric.
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B.
Iliad scholia
The Iliad scholia are ancient marginal commentaries and notes on Homer's Iliad, preserving scholarly explanations, interpretations, and textual variants from classical and Byzantine scholars.
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C.
Heroides
Heroides is a collection of elegiac epistolary poems by the Roman poet Ovid, presented as fictional letters written by mythological heroines to their absent lovers.
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D.
Philippicae
Philippicae is a series of speeches by the Roman orator Cicero vehemently attacking Mark Antony and defending the Roman Republic.
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E.
Prolegomena ad Homerum
Prolegomena ad Homerum is Friedrich August Wolf’s groundbreaking 1795 philological study that challenged the traditional view of Homeric authorship and helped found modern classical scholarship.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica Target entity description: 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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A.
Encomium of Helen
Encomium of Helen is a famous sophistic speech by the ancient Greek rhetorician Gorgias that defends Helen of Troy and showcases the persuasive power of rhetoric.
-
B.
Iliad scholia
The Iliad scholia are ancient marginal commentaries and notes on Homer's Iliad, preserving scholarly explanations, interpretations, and textual variants from classical and Byzantine scholars.
-
C.
Heroides
Heroides is a collection of elegiac epistolary poems by the Roman poet Ovid, presented as fictional letters written by mythological heroines to their absent lovers.
-
D.
Philippicae
Philippicae is a series of speeches by the Roman orator Cicero vehemently attacking Mark Antony and defending the Roman Republic.
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E.
Prolegomena ad Homerum
Prolegomena ad Homerum is Friedrich August Wolf’s groundbreaking 1795 philological study that challenged the traditional view of Homeric authorship and helped found modern classical scholarship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek epic poem
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ancient literary work ⓘ classical epic ⓘ |
| aimsTo | imitate Homeric language and style ⓘ |
| author | Quintus Smyrnaeus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Greek mythological traditions about the Trojan War ⓘ |
| continuationOf | Homer's Iliad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drawsOn |
cyclic Trojan epics such as the Aethiopis and the Iliou Persis
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lost epics of the Epic Cycle ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Achilles
NERFINISHED
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Aeneas NERFINISHED ⓘ Agamemnon NERFINISHED ⓘ Ajax son of Telamon NERFINISHED ⓘ Andromache NERFINISHED ⓘ Hecuba NERFINISHED ⓘ Helen NERFINISHED ⓘ Memnon NERFINISHED ⓘ Menelaus NERFINISHED ⓘ Neoptolemus NERFINISHED ⓘ Odysseus NERFINISHED ⓘ Penthesilea NERFINISHED ⓘ Philoctetes NERFINISHED ⓘ Priam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn | events after the death of Hector ⓘ |
| genre | epic poetry ⓘ |
| includesEpisode |
Trojan Horse stratagem
NERFINISHED
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arrival of Neoptolemus at Troy ⓘ arrival of the Amazon Penthesilea at Troy ⓘ arrival of the Ethiopian king Memnon ⓘ death of Achilles ⓘ death of Memnon NERFINISHED ⓘ 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 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | continuous narrative without major internal breaks ⓘ |
| style | Homerizing ⓘ |
| subject | Trojan War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tradition | post-Homeric Trojan War narrative ⓘ |
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Subject: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus
subject surface form:
Penthesilea
this entity surface form:
Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
subject surface form:
Memnon
this entity surface form:
Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica