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