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Quintus Smyrnaeus
Quintus Smyrnaeus
c. 315 CE–c. 375 CE · Smyrna
Quintus Smyrnaeus (active 3rd or 4th century CE) was a Greek epic poet best known for the Posthomerica, a poem in the Homeric style that narrates the events of the Trojan War in the interval between the end of Homer's Iliad and the beginning of the Odyssey. His work continues the epic tradition centuries after Homer, drawing on earlier legends to fill the narrative gap.
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SmyrnaIonia (Asia Minor)
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About Smyrna
Smyrna, modern İzmir on the Aegean coast of Turkey, was a leading Ionian Greek polis and a major center of rhetoric and learning under Rome. The sophist Marcus Antonius Polemon taught there, the orator Aelius Aristides was closely associated with the city, and it was one of several places claiming to be the birthplace of Homer. The mathematician Theon of Smyrna and the epic poet Quintus Smyrnaeus take their names from it.
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