Quintus Smyrnaeus lists the attendant warriors of Penthesilea: " Clonie was there, Polemusa, Derinoe, Evandre, and Antandre, and Bremusa, Hippothoe, dark-eyed Harmothoe, Alcibie, Derimacheia, Antibrote, and Thermodosa glorying with the spear.

Quintus Smyrnaeus pictured her exulting in her heart over the radiant horses ( Lampos and Phaithon ) that drew her chariot, amidst the bright-haired Horae, the feminine Hours, climbing the arc of heaven and scattering sparks of fire.

Homer's description of the flat disc cosmography on the shield of Achilles with the encircling ocean is also found repeated far later in Quintus Smyrnaeus ' Posthomerica ( 4th century AD ) which continues the narration of the Trojan War.

The most detailed description of Laocoön's grisly fate was provided by Quintus Smyrnaeus in Posthomerica, a later, literary version of events following the Iliad.

* Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 12. 445ff

According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, Odysseus came up with the idea of building a great wooden horse ( the horse being the emblem of Troy ), hiding an elite force inside, and fooling the Trojans into wheeling the horse into the city as a trophy.

Other sources give different numbers: The Bibliotheca 50 ; Tzetzes 23 ; and Quintus Smyrnaeus gives the names of thirty, but says there were more.

* Ares ( Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 8. 239 )

* Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica: ( uncertain date, possibly 4th century AD ) ( text )

Quintus Smyrnaeus explains more fully than pseudo-Apollodorus how Penthesilea came to be at Troy: Penthesilea had killed Hippolyta with a spear when they were hunting deer ; this accident caused Penthesilea so much grief that she wished only to die, but, as a warrior and an Amazon, she had to do so honorably and in battle.

The only extensive surviving narration of Oenone and Paris is Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica, book X. 259-489, which tells the return of wounded Paris to Oenone.

According to Quintus Smyrnaeus this Dymas was the father of Meges, a Trojan whose sons fought at Troy.

According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, the Greek leaders agreed to the boon of returning her body to the Trojans for her funeral pyre.

According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, Odysseus and Diomedes came to Scyros to bring him to the war at Troy.

According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, while slaughtering countless Trojans, Diomedes met an elderly man named Ilioneus who begged for mercy.

He is mentioned in Quintus Smyrnaeus ' Posthomerica, but again, no death is mentioned.

His first books were Select Translations from Quintus Smyrnaeus ( 1821 ), an edition of Collins ( 1827 ), and Specimens of British Poetesses ( 1825 ).

* Quintus Smyrnaeus The Fall of Troy translated by Arthur Sanders Way ( Loeb Classical Library ) 1913 ).

* Quintus Smyrnaeus: a modern bibliography

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His style is partway between that of Nonnus and Quintus Smyrnaeus.

Despite the similarities The Taking of Ilios is an independent poem, unlike Quintus Smyrnaeus ' Posthomerica which was presented as a continuation of the Iliad.

Quintus Smyrnaeus mentions another Phrygian prince, named Coroebus, son of Mygdon, who fought and died at Troy ; he had sued for the hand of the Trojan princess Cassandra in marriage.

* Hadrian also visits Britain in this year at the request of Governor of Britain Quintus Pompeius Falco.

Hermann ( 1906 ) identifies as such * ansulaikom the victory songs of the Batavi after defeating Quintus Petillius Cerialis in the Batavian rebellion of 69 AD ( according to Tacitus ' account ), and also the " nefarious song " accompanied by " running in a circle " around the head of a decapitated goat sacrificed to ( he presumes ) Wodan, sung by the Lombards at their victory celebration in 579 according to the report of Pope Gregory the Great ( Dialogues ch.

At 29, he took over more of the reins of power, though he continued to rule through a cabal consisting of Marcia, his new chamberlain Eclectus, and the new praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus, who about this time also had many Christians freed from working in the mines in Sardinia.

Calchas also plays a role in Quintus of Smyrna ' Posthomerica.

Sallust, Titus Munatius Plancus and Quintus Pompeius Rufus also tried to blame Cicero, one of the leaders of senators ' opposition to triumvirate, for his support of Milo.

Saturus, who is also said to have recorded his own vision, sees himself and Perpetua transported eastward by four angels to a beautiful garden, where they meet Jocundus, Saturninus, Artaius, and Quintus, four other Christians who are burnt alive during the same persecution ( xi-xii ).

By the 2nd century A. D., several of these names had also passed out of general use at Rome, leaving Aulus, Decimus, Gaius, Gnaeus, Lucius, Manius, Marcus, Numerius, Publius, Quintus, Sextus, Titus, and Tiberius.

It is also the Legion in which Optio Quintus Licinius Cato and Centurion Lucius Cornelius Macro serve in during the first five books of the Eagle series by Simon Scarrow.

His parents died when he was young, and he was cared for by his maternal uncle Marcus Livius Drusus, who also looked after Quintus Servilius Caepio, Servilia Caepionis Maior, and Servilia Caepionis Minor from Livia's first marriage ( though Quintus Servilius Caepio was generally known to be Cato's full brother ), as well as Porcia ( Cato's full sister ), and Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus ( Livius ' adopted son ).

A variety of surnames associated with the Aemilii were also used by this family, and one of them is said to have been named Africanus Fabius Maximus, although his proper name may have been Quintus Fabius Maximus Africanus.

Quintus Caecilius Metellus may also refer to:

Quintus Cicero also liked old-fashioned and harsh punishments, like putting a person convicted of parricide into a sack and throwing him out in the sea ,( the felon was severely scourged then sewn into a stout leather bag with a dog, a snake, a rooster, and a monkey, and the bag was thrown into the river Tiber ).

Quintus might also feel at times, that the self-centered Marcus thought only how his brother might hinder or help Marcus ’ own career on the Cursus Honorum.

Thus, even though others such as Atticus, Tullia, Piso and Quintus were also lobbying for Cicero's return, Terentia was one of the most fervent activists in the crisis.

Quintus Sammonicus Serenus ( died 212 ) was a Roman savant, tutor to Geta and Caracalla who became fatally involved in politics, and an author of a didactic medical poem, Liber Medicinalis ( also known as De medicina praecepta saluberrima ), probably incomplete in the form in which we have it, as well as many lost works.

Commentariolum Petitionis (" little handbook on electioneering "), also known as De petitione consulatus (" on running for the Consulship "), is an essay supposedly written by Quintus Tullius Cicero, ca.

* Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar ( II ) – Served as a United States Supreme Court Justice and also a Senator from Mississippi.

A third storyline is focused on the figures of Marcus Livius Drusus and his sister Livia Drusa who both feature more prominently in The Grass Crown: and their own growing friendship with the Servilius Caepio family resulting in a double marriage, which proves disastrous when Quintus Servilius Caepio Senior is not only accused of embezzling more gold than there was in the Roman Treasury, but also is responsible for Rome's most disastrous military defeat for generations-a defeat which so ruins the credibility of the conservative leaders of the Senate that it lets Marius into power far earlier than he expected, and for a longer time.

Many of the other families of the Junii also used these names, although some added Gaius and others Quintus.

Panaetius also wrote treatises concerning On Cheerfulness ; on the Magistrates ; On Providence ; On Divination ; a political treatise used by Cicero in his De Republica ; and a letter to Quintus Aelius Tubero.

Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia mentions that Quintus Pedius had a grandson also named Quintus Pedius who was deaf and is notable as being the earliest example of a deaf individual named in written history ( see Quintus Pedius ( deaf painter )).