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, also known as Kointos Smyrnaios (), was a Greek epic poet whose Posthomerica, following " after Homer " continues the narration of the Trojan War.

* 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.

On the day that Opimius planned to repeal Gaius ' laws, an attendant of Opimius, Quintus Antyllius, carrying the entrails of a sacrifice, forced his way through a crowd.

According to the Posthomerica, by Quintus of Smyrna, he was killed by Penthesilea, the Queen of the Amazons.

He was a knight of the Round Table, `` Sir Quintus the Brave '', slaying evil spirits and banshees and vampires and witches with warty noses.

It was however in Britain that Antoninus decided to follow a new, more aggressive path, with the appointment of a new governor in 139, Quintus Lollius Urbicus.

During Virgil's time Aeneas was well-known and various versions of his adventures were circulating in Rome, including Roman Antiquities by Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( relying on Marcus Terentius Varro, Ab Urbe Condita by Livy ( probably dependent on Quintus Fabius Pictor, fl.

For example, Alfonso halted his army in pious respect before the birthplace of a Latin writer, carried Livy or Caesar on his campaigns with him, and his panegyrist Panormita even stated that the king was cured of an illness when a few pages of Quintus Curtius Rufus ' history of Alexander the Great were read to him.

The first known mention of the word was in the third century AD in a book called Liber Medicinalis ( sometimes known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima ) by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who prescribed that malaria sufferers wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of a triangle:

The consul Quintus Lutatius Catulus had not dared to fortify the passes, but instead he had retreated behind the River Po, and so the land was open to the invaders.

Quintus Ennius ( c. 239 – c. 169 BC ) was a writer during the period of the Roman Republic, and is often considered the father of Roman poetry.

Descended from an ancient patrician gens Fabii, he was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges, a grandson of another Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges and a great-grandson of Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, all famous Consuls.

A new crisis occurred at the beginning of Hadrian's reign ( 117 ): a rising in the north which was suppressed by Quintus Pompeius Falco.

In the reign of Antoninus Pius ( 138-161 ) the Hadrianic border was briefly extended north to the Forth-Clyde isthmus, where the Antonine Wall was built around 142 following the military reoccupation of the Scottish lowlands by a new governor, Quintus Lollius Urbicus.

First mention was in 200 BC by the poet Quintus Ennius.

According to Quintus, Laocoön begged the Trojans to set fire to the horse to ensure it was not a trick.

Among the famous jurists of the republican period are Quintus Mucius Scaevola who wrote a voluminous treatise on all aspects of the law, which was very influential in later times, and Servius Sulpicius Rufus, a friend of Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 225 AD ), was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa.

Brutus ' uncle, Quintus Servilius Caepio, adopted him in about 59 BC, and Brutus was known officially for a time as Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus before he reverted to using his birth-name.

A spectacular find in 2006 was the richly detailed bronze and silver brooch ( fibula ) modeled with the figure of Mars, on which Quintus Sollonius, a Gaul to judge by his name, had carefully punched his name before he lost it in the early second century ; nothing comparably fine has been recovered along the Wall.

Surprisingly this is very close to the calculation of the founding given by Rome's first native historical writer, Quintus Fabius Pictor, who wrote that Rome was founded in the first year of the eighth Olympiad, 747 BC ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Book 1, ch.

In 73 BC, he was brought to trial for adultery with the Vestal Virgin, Fabia, who was a half-sister of Cicero's wife, Terentia, but Quintus Lutatius Catulus, the principal leader of the Optimates, testified in his favor, and eventually Catiline was acquitted.