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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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About Smyrna
Smyrna, modern İzmir on the Aegean coast of Turkey, was an ancient Greek city refounded in the fourth century BCE and, under Rome, a leading port of the province of Asia. It was a centre of rhetoric: the sophist Marcus Antonius Polemon taught there, the orator Aelius Aristides was closely associated with it, and it was one of several places claiming to be Homer's birthplace. Its church is one of the seven addressed in the Book of Revelation, and its second-century bishop Polycarp, to whom Ignatius of Antioch wrote and whom Irenaeus knew in his youth, was martyred there. The mathematician Theon of Smyrna and the epic poet Quintus Smyrnaeus take their names from the city.
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