The Fall of Troy
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How died for Troy the Queen of the Amazons Penthesileia.
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How Memnon, Son of the Dawn, for Troy's sake fell in the Battle
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How by the shaft of a God laid low was Hero Achilles
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How in the Funeral Games of Achilles heroes contended.
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How the Arms of Achilles were cause of madness and death unto Aias.
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How came for the helping of Troy Eurypylus, Hercules' grandson.
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How the Son of Achilles was brought to the War from the Isle of Scyros.
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How Hercules' Grandson perished in fight with the Son of Achilles.
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How from his long lone exile returned to the war Philoctetes.
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How Paris was stricken to death, and in vain sought help of Oenone
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How the sons of Troy for the last time fought from her walls and her towers.
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How the Wooden Horse was fashioned, and brought into Troy by her people.
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How Troy in the night was taken and sacked with fire and slaughter.
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How the conquerors sailed from Troy unto judgment of tempest and shipwreck.
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Fear fills Priam’s city after Hector’s funeral, and Penthesileia arrives at Troy with twelve warrior companions. This opening places personal grief beside the pressures of the Trojan War. Smyrnaeus Quintus tells the story in epic verse, presented here in A. S. Way’s 1913 English translation. Penthesileia’s sorrow over her sister’s accidental death gives her arrival a purpose beyond the fighting itself, while comparisons with animals, stars and divine figures shape the poem’s descriptions.
Later passages turn to Eurypylus and the struggle around the Greek ships. The speed of the battle gives way to mourning and funeral observances, with attention to the different qualities for which fallen companions are remembered. Gods and fate remain part of the language through which these losses are understood. For readers interested in Greek mythology and the traditions surrounding Homer, the poem extends the world of the Iliad through another poet’s handling of courage, fear and grief.
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