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Quintus Smyrnaeus · 4th century AD

The Fall of Troy (Posthomerica)

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The Fall of Troy picks up where the Iliad stops, at the funeral of Hector, and runs through fourteen books to the end of the war: the Amazon Penthesileia and the Ethiopian Memnon come to help Troy and die; Paris kills Achilles; the Greeks hold funeral games and quarrel over his armour until Ajax goes mad; Eurypylus and then Neoptolemus and Philoctetes arrive, and Paris falls; the Wooden Horse is built and Troy is sacked; the victors sail for home into storm. Way's translation is in English blank verse, and its books carry his own one-line arguments. It has no line numbers, so each stanza is matched to a run of Greek lines and the ranges are approximate.

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Text
Greek original with English translation, 77 passages, about 77500 words in English.
Translator
A. S. Way (1913)
Edition
Arnold Zimmermann (ed.), Quinti Smyrnaei Posthomericorum libri XIV, Leipzig: Teubner, 1891 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus)
Cite as
Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy (Posthomerica) 1.1 (by book, line)

Contents · 77 passages

  1. 1.1–133Penthesileia comes to Troy1299 words
  2. 1.134–226Penthesileia arms for battle959 words
  3. 1.227–352Penthesileia's onslaught1286 words
  4. 1.353–493Theano and the women of Troy1513 words
  5. 1.494–653Achilles kills Penthesileia1687 words
  6. 1.654–765Achilles and Thersites1163 words
  7. 1.766–830Diomedes and Thersites; the Amazons buried640 words
  8. 2.1–93Polydamas and Paris quarrel1044 words
  9. 2.94–182Memnon comes to Troy857 words
  10. 2.183–276Memnon kills Antilochus880 words
  11. 2.277–387Memnon and Nestor1103 words
  12. 2.388–548Achilles kills Memnon1438 words
  13. 2.549–666Dawn mourns Memnon1075 words
  14. 3.1–95Apollo shoots Achilles885 words
  15. 3.96–211Hera rebukes Apollo; Achilles falls1036 words
  16. 3.212–292The fight over Achilles' body697 words
  17. 3.293–421Aias and Odysseus rescue Achilles' body1193 words
  18. 3.422–513The lament for Achilles798 words
  19. 3.514–581Achilles' body is washed594 words
  20. 3.582–664Thetis and the Muses mourn Achilles786 words
  21. 3.665–787The pyre of Achilles1110 words
  22. 4.1–117Glaucus carried to Lycia; Thetis sets the games1047 words
  23. 4.118–214Funeral games: the foot-race805 words
  24. 4.215–322Funeral games: wrestling903 words
  25. 4.323–464Funeral games: boxing, archery and the iron bar1230 words
  26. 4.465–595Funeral games: leaping, javelin, chariot-race and horse-race1122 words
  27. 5.1–120The arms of Achilles940 words
  28. 5.121–236Aias and Odysseus claim the arms1075 words
  29. 5.237–332Odysseus wins the arms of Achilles877 words
  30. 5.333–455The madness of Aias1063 words
  31. 5.456–567The death of Aias1047 words
  32. 5.568–663The burial of Aias878 words
  33. 6.1–115Calchas sends for Neoptolemus1010 words
  34. 6.116–199Eurypylus comes to Troy709 words
  35. 6.200–334The shield of Eurypylus1134 words
  36. 6.335–450Eurypylus kills Machaon964 words
  37. 6.451–651Eurypylus drives the Argives to the ships1680 words
  38. 7.1–97Podaleirius mourns Machaon852 words
  39. 7.98–168A truce for the dead607 words
  40. 7.169–291Odysseus and Diomedes at Scyros1111 words
  41. 7.292–430Neoptolemus leaves Scyros1242 words
  42. 7.431–555Neoptolemus enters the battle1084 words
  43. 7.556–734Neoptolemus is honoured at the feast1492 words
  44. 8.1–107Neoptolemus and the Myrmidons attack868 words
  45. 8.108–236Neoptolemus kills Eurypylus1067 words
  46. 8.237–394Ares rallies the Trojans1321 words
  47. 8.395–504Zeus veils Troy911 words
  48. 9.1–74Neoptolemus at Achilles' tomb636 words
  49. 9.75–209The battle before the walls1217 words
  50. 9.210–320Apollo and Poseidon check Neoptolemus952 words
  51. 9.321–443Philoctetes on Lemnos1019 words
  52. 9.444–546Philoctetes is healed939 words
  53. 10.1–73Polydamas and Aeneas debate622 words
  54. 10.74–202Heroes in the slaughter; the arms of Hercules1025 words
  55. 10.203–331Philoctetes wounds Paris1105 words
  56. 10.332–410The death of Paris721 words
  57. 10.411–489The death of Oenone680 words
  58. 11.1–128The battle after Paris' death1045 words
  59. 11.129–282Apollo rouses the Trojans1242 words
  60. 11.283–357Athena turns the battle577 words
  61. 11.358–501The assault on the wall1179 words
  62. 12.1–116Odysseus plans the Wooden Horse955 words
  63. 12.117–213Epeius builds the Wooden Horse835 words
  64. 12.214–345The Argives enter the Wooden Horse1118 words
  65. 12.346–443Sinon and Laocoon819 words
  66. 12.444–585Laocoon's sons and Cassandra1181 words
  67. 13.1–66Sinon signals the fleet734 words
  68. 13.67–167The Argives enter Troy792 words
  69. 13.168–296The deaths of Priam and Astyanax1121 words
  70. 13.297–414Aeneas escapes; Menelaus and Helen1001 words
  71. 13.415–563Troy burns; Aethra rescued1262 words
  72. 14.1–120The spoil of Troy951 words
  73. 14.121–227Menelaus and Helen; Achilles' ghost956 words
  74. 14.228–328Polyxeina is sacrificed834 words
  75. 14.329–418The fleet sails from Troy777 words
  76. 14.419–547Athena's storm1086 words
  77. 14.548–658The wreck of the Argive fleet994 words

English translation by A. S. Way (1913). Original text: Arnold Zimmermann (ed.), Quinti Smyrnaei Posthomericorum libri XIV, Leipzig: Teubner, 1891 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus).

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