Description: As you may know, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey is not the full story. Indeed, many of the most famed accounts of the Trojan War and the Epic Cycle are not featured, and sometimes not even mentioned, in either masterpiece. That is because Homer was working from a already well-established mythic cycle, and told a pin-point story about Achilles' rage and Odysseus' return. The whole epic cycle features so much more. all of which is featured in Homeric-likeness in Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica. Written in 3rd Century A.D., Quintus wrote his Posthomerica in order to preserve the full story of the epic cycle in the literary world, and chose to do so in the Homerica style, as an honor owed to Homer for his Iliad and Odyssey. In the Posthomerica, stories of the Trojan Horse and the death of Paris/Alexander can be read. One can learn of the battles between Amazonian Queen, Penthesilea and Achilles, as well as the fatal life-blows to both of them. Here is the true fall of Troy. A must have for every Classicist, trained or not, this completes the full story of the epic cycle.
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Book Title: Trojan Epic : Posthomerica
Book Series: Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity Ser.
Narrative Type: Fiction
Original Language: Greek, Classical
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Item Length: 9 in
Publication Year: 2004
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 1.1 in
Author: Quintus
Genre: Literary Criticism, Poetry, History
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Epic, Ancient / Greece, General, Ancient & Classical
Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
Item Width: 6 in
Number of Pages: 408 Pages
